I was trying to think of things to suggest, and when I reviewed the work, I saw that you were already doing those things. Best I can suggest is to practice reading the scene, as if it were a speech you were going to give. See if it seems to have the flow you want.
"Sabots" was the name given to the rocket-fighters. They were christened that because somebody thought they looked like an old wooden shoe.
I am actually going to write a whole technical manual to describe the weapons, equipment, vehicles and ships because there is A LOT.
The UDS-16 Horizon dropship is sort of the sci-fi equivilant to a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter. Although it is mainly used to carry troops (in my novel's case, both light infantry and the heavy infantry, who pilot mechs) or supplies, it is designed to be armed and used for attack as well. Mainly in support of the troops it carries, but it is able to carry anti-ship missles (eight of them).
The SSGM-40 Peten (Hebrew for poison snake) is a nuclear missile designed to give dropships, fighters and strikeships a punch against the kilometer sized capital warships (where you NEED nukes if you do not have capital-ship sized plasma weapons or massdrivers. This is due to their sheer size and often, extremely thick armor plating and bulkheads, both of which are up to ten meters thick in some places). It is armed with a five-kiloton pure fusion waread.