Ships rank based on the damage that they do to enemy ships and the damage they receive.
With only one weapon on the ship it is going to be doing minimal damage to enemy fleet which is going to result in minimal, if any VXP from the target.
I took a manti flag into a 75 elite salv with four skulled scatter manti's and got 0 vxp for the kill. I then took off the four skulled hulls and killed another 75 elite salv with just the rankless manti flag and got 10 vxp.
Ships rank based on the damage that they do to enemy ships and the damage they receive.
With only one weapon on the ship it is going to be doing minimal damage to enemy fleet which is going to result in minimal, if any VXP from the target.
I took a manti flag into a 75 elite salv with four skulled scatter manti's and got 0 vxp for the kill. I then took off the four skulled hulls and killed another 75 elite salv with just the rankless manti flag and got 10 vxp.