Small craft designs

I'm not sure how many of you have read the Dominion Wars Source Netbook yet, but I was thinking of converting things like Shuttle craft, Shuttlepods, and escape capsuals to the rules on ground vehicles (GV) rather than using starship rules for them.

My reasoning behind this is based on the notations of hand held phasers, at setting 16 (explodes 600 cubic meters of rock into rubble) might scratch the paint on a type 15 shuttle pod (resistance 2, 20 structural points). Max damage on the phaser is 232 personal points of damage, this converts (using the GV rules) to 4 points of starship damage. You would need to empty a full charged type II phaser to compleatly destroy an object of roughly 15 cubic meters hollowed (and there's no effective personal body armor in the Trek universe?).