'Pulling The Fangs' does seem ludicrously difficult.
I've lost *all* of my friendlies three times in that mission, leaving me on my own at sub 20% hull.
I finally get popped by Aries 17+, or the Pandora itself - a lot of that was it firing flak through itself.
The fighter complement inside doesn't match the canon capacity of 150 (ish) fighters at all:
"Pulling The Fangs" has 96, while "Closing the Box" has 67 fighters from the Pandora, a total of 163 in those two missions alone, yet we are previously told that several wings of 'uber-cool' fighters that we encounter are from that ship.
It also doesn't matter how many fighters are actually destroyed, yet on finally giving up and skipping that mission, I find that the Pandora *somehow* has several turrets back up to full strength, which is highly irritating as it is impossible to finish the previous mission without destroying all 27 turrets.
I'm playing at Easy difficulty, which should be slightly tipping the balance towards me - frankly, I've found a few missions in this campaign frustrating.