Well, if You admit, that "heavy" tank was intended as a joke, then it's precisely what I meant. That it was removed before voting, is irrelevant, what's relevant for me is that it was posted at all.
But you are absolutely right, the research, (specially the gatekeeping elements of it) for smaller sized and rather well known ships are not that huge, and they would indeed form great starting point. They are also quite well presented in the bucket however. I'm not quite so sure if they are so wel...