Thank you, I'll try to address that in the next sweep.

Also
Put A Button Panel Next To The Clamps To Unlock Them
And Hide All Thrusters In The Terminal
Thankyou
:)

Both A & B have Antenna's Are Not Broadcasting
C & D Have Broadcasting Enabled
Please Fix

However, if you absolutely require horizontal thrusters, I suggest mounting a pair or two on the nose hardpoints. You would be trading some firepower for maneuverability but at least total mass should be similar. I will add some extra ice as well but how much depends a lot on the host server settings for container storage and again: more ice is more weight.

That right there is the dilema. The challenge of these drop shuttles is weight management. I tried to stuff as many thrusters into it as I could to maximise vertical thrust and save weight. The DS-37 can comfortably handle about 10,000kg in terrible flight conditions and maybe a bit more under better conditions. Atmospheric engines are unusually heavy, just one pair of small atmo. thrusters have a mass over 1,000kg which would reduce the useful payload capacity by 10%.

The solution I would suggest is, instead of sidestepping (lateral strafing) with thrusters, roll the ship slightly and create a 'horizontal component of lift.' In other words, you would take a fragment of your very strong lift energy and divert it into sideways motion. This is how helicopters fly and best of all, it won't require any mass to do.

Horizontal Component of Lift [faasafety.gov]

I've Been Testing The Shuttles and the new cargo pods and there manouvability. i found an issue with both shuttles.
they both Have The Same Weakness in Atmosphere.

Side Thuster Propulsion, It Needs Either A Couple Atmospheric Thrusters, or Hydrogen thrusters to move easier left/right to allign to the pods.

Other than that they need more ice in the generator.

Thank you. This may very well be my most useful creation. There are two more shuttles coming, the C and D variants as soon as I can finish their testing and take the screenshots and stuff I need of them. They're kind of like "Navy" versions of the A and B variants, they're modified to be a little narrower and quite a bit shorter so that they'll fit into certain 5x6x3 block ship airlocks that I use.

As for the pods, my plan is to make a new collection for them and then put the entire collection in the 'Pirate/R.U.S.T. Fleet' collection as one item.

Thankyou
A Version With Ventral Atmo Thrusters :)

Also Please Note The Extension Items Are Currently Not In The R.U.S.T. Fleet Collection

Brilliant group. Thank you!