I remember playing a shivan gauntlet with... I think it was snail and cobra, a long time ago. Both of them were in Ursas and I was in an Enrynes or Perseus or something, and half the match was them telling me "Don't kill it, don't kill it - I want to shoot it with my Helios!" Course, that's what happens when you try to do that with Manticores.
I don't think I'd be able to get a lock on any non-bomber closer than 600 or so meters with a bomb, much less hit anything that's trying to maneuver. And I tend to die when I charge enemy fighters head on in bombers.