[BengalTiger]

... are making this game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srM8PqpqOrA

At 1:40 - Lancer, Cuirassier and Cataphract. All 3 are names I use for the Tiigran-Merisst bombers (to be released in the not very well specified SOON)
At 2:25 - a Shrike fighter is presented, although it looks different from the FS Open one.
https://wiki.hard-light.net/index.php/TF_Shrike

Or is it all a coincidence and am I just going crazy?

[Goober5000]

That looks like a really cool game, indeed...

But you might need a bit more evidence.  A "Shrike" is a bird of prey, so it's a very plausible name for a space fighter.  That's how I came up with the name for it, anyway.

[BengalTiger]

Lancer, Cuirassier and Cataphract are all cavalry units.
It's from the theme I started with the very first ship named Hussar.

It may well be a coincidence, hence the tinfoil hat photo :-D

[deathspeed]

There is a playable demo on Steam.  I struggled with getting controls set up the way I wanted, but the dev is working on it so I did not delete and remove from my library.  I'm not a huge fan of Newtonian physics in games, because often the implementation focuses on realism at the expense of fun, but they are trying to keep this fun as well.  The 28 minutes I played show promise!