As a new user I found it difficult to compare the stats of various ships ingame due to the stats not being fully visable in the description text area. I would image it would be more helpful to place them overlaying the rotating ship in the lower left corner or wherever. That would make it far more helpful to switch between ships and visably see what stats are different. Thanks for your time.

If you control-click on multiple items, all of their stats appear in the description box for easy comparison.

Thats a feature? I thought it was a bug!

Also all ships/weaps stats are mentioned on vo-wiki.com