I would add front shields but it messes with the AI, it leaves shields up instead of flickering them a lot of the time and it also sometimes takes damage when it drops shields and turns that it would have blocked with an omni shield. It seemed to me like losses because of that were offsetting the extra dissipation but it's definitely close. RFC was more about trying the get the AI to be willing to approach and also vent. A lot of the time, the AI will sit back and not push into heavy blaster range, and it also has an annoying behavior where it backs off but doesn't vent and then re-engages with some hard flux still. I kinda hoped RFC would help with that behavior, but I'm not sure it actually does. The loadout is really about making the AI effective rather than being as strong as possible. TBH, switching between RFC, front shield and just an extra couple caps, the performance seems the same on average. Differences in performance are mostly because of variance in AI behavior rather than the details of the loadout.