We currently have 1 animation for everything, 1 death animation per ship, 1 explosion animation per weapon (with the exception of rails, missiles, and rockets), etc.
What i would like to see is more than 1 death animation per ship, one where the wings fly off of the vulture, the cockpit explodes, then the wings explode. It would be randomly decided on which animation would happen. It would be good to make the animations look like they would happen if a certain thing happened so that later on it would change depending on which area of the ship had the most damage.

I want my ship to blow up like the frigate :D