Light-HawkBurstarThe day we can engineer (or even swap out for a different weapon) the turret is the day we start screaming for things like deployable Sidewinders in the fighter bay.
Honestly at this point anymore, game balance is so broken, I don't see any reason to not permit deployable sidewinders or eagles. If it can be used in CQC then for all I care might as well permit it in SLF hangers. Why not let players engineer the heck out of them and let AI's fly them as SLFs? Balancing issues in combat? That was literally thrown out the window the moment engineering became a thing. I have never played a multiplayer game with less combat related balance than Elite.
Obviously, you should not be able to jump into another system with your fighter and a sidewinder or an eagle could.