Well, the new bomber is AWESOME! And now more than ever, I have to suggest to have two different weapons loaded simultaneously.
It could be either another lower end bomber (or a bomber/figther hybrid with little or no velocity cap) that lets you choose your weapon (a switch weapon key would be required), or an upgrade for the bomber ship that lets you have different weapons shooting at the same time. Only problem I can not think right now with this latter solution is how picking weapon presents would behave though.