Not sure if this is intentional or not, however, the missile techs are useless for virtually every faction. For awhile I was wondering why the missile techs (in the game) were only listed as helping some squadrons, as the game compiles this list, these names are not pre-coded. After digging, I saw that the linked weapon class for the various boosts is MISSILE, even though the vast majority of ships which use missiles use Phase Missiles (PHASEMISSILE). This can be easily fixed by adding a second research modifier, for Phase Missiles. Example for a missile damage tech:

 

...

researchFloatModifiers 2

researchModifier

modifierType "WeaponDamageAdjustment"

baseValue 0.000000

perLevelValue 0.050000

linkedWeaponClass "MISSILE"

researchModifier

modifierType "WeaponDamageAdjustment"

baseValue 0.000000

perLevelValue 0.050000

linkedWeaponClass "PHASEMISSILE"

...

 

Edit: As well, if the missile techs were meant to only benefit fighters and bombers (as someone told me), they did not even accomplish this, as most of the fighters use Phase Missiles, and not Missiles. To use the Republic as an example, the sole craft which benefited from this tech was the Jedi Squadron.

Seems like a good catch to me!