LRM's or LRF's

Sounds like Drones are what you're looking for

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Mr. Flibble says...
Game over, boys!

Haven't played with drones yet in the SEV demo but in SEIV there certainly are Kamikaze warheads available. So if it's not in there yet I am sure it will be.

That's pretty much all drones do in stock, actually. If they have weapons they will fire them, then ram. Unfortunately in stock they're ridiclously expensive.

Drones in the demo don't move, so they can't ram and explode their warhead. It ruins drones, so it's an important bug to fix, but I wouldn't be too surprised if MM hasn't already figured out what caused it and repaired the errant code.

See subject. Probes are easy, decoys not so much. You could set a drone to look like a certain ship but they player would be able to see its unit type, and unless the components matched it wouldn't act like that ship.

Yeah drones are what you want, but they seem pretty limited. They have multiple types of warheads. But once drones are launched they have to be given a target and will strike that target only, they can't resupply and can't be given new orders unless the original was destroyed already (this is what it says, i haven't confirmed this part). They can make jumps though.

Fighters are more what i would see X-wings like. They can patrol the system, they just can't jump. They are also faster than the larger ships so are capable of catching them easier.

But they're expensive because they use the large-sized Ion Engines.

In the "commercial game" they do work, they just have to have some ordnance in order to ram.

(and if they ram, they seem to stay alive, but with 0 ordnance and supply -- an amusing little bug.)