Kasumi Goto[…] (and the preengineered AX missiles which are on offer for the CG here but those are mostly just useful for Titan bombing and slaughtering Thargoid transport trucks, aka Orthrus… I have barely seen any players actually use them to the end of exerting Thargoid hearts, probably for the same reason original shard cannons and plasma chargers are frowned upon - not very good at their job… in case of those missiles, I wager it is comparatively slow shot speed which makes even slight changes in direction from an Interceptor just result in missing completely)
The fact AX missiles (unlike shards) are completely useless for destroying Interceptor hearts might also play a part.
Indy*cries* "It's OK, AspX. The mean commanders can't hurt you when you're in storage. Soon."
Don’t worry, there are other people who like the AspEx. (Like, um, me.)
That said, I engineered my exploration-oriented AspEx build to be fast enough to outrun most Thargoid trouble-makers. And if I replace the thrusters and the power distributor it can outrun even Basilisks easily, at the cost of a slight range reduction, of course.