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That's what I thought-and it is showing up perfectly fine for me in my games, both in combat and out of combat, in the ship stats when I have the ship selected-or stats toggled when in fleet combat view.

Have you by chance had a transfer from SDC to Impulse at some point without completely uninstalling and reinstalling your games?  That seems to create fluke, otherwise non-reproduceable problems for some reason, which generally don't effect the actual running of the game, just the play thereof.

That's my best guess. 

I was playing a very slow tech rate as well.  I didn't research the advanced guns, just stole them from the dread lords.  By letting them take a planet you are in a position to retake quickly, you have a pretty decent shot of swiping yourself some technologies that allow you to completely dominate the game.