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I haven't much experimented with this, but I suspect that it won't be worth the trade-off. The thing that sets the Paladin PD apart from all other PD weapons is that it shoots over friendly ships, effectively providing a PD bubble for friendlies. Again, I'd much rather take the Tachyon Lance so that when I do face big ships, I've got more boom boom on my side. So by equipping your paragon with 2 Paladin PDs on the side, you're effectively cutting its long-range damage in half. Ships equipped with Large Energy hardpoints rely heavily on those hardpoints to do damage. For this reason, I would much rather prefer my Paragon's two side turrets to be Tachyon Lances, because those will actually destroy enemy frigates before they come close enough to fire their ordnance.

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The Paladin PD does not do enough damage to crack the shields or armour of these ships, so you're much better off sticking actual guns on the side and rear of your capital ship to protect it. Why is this a better option? Well, two reasons:ДЇirstly, the real threat is flanking frigates coming from odd angles, not missiles. Other ways of dealing with missiles are raising our shields or equipping Point Defence weapons in small (PD laser, Burst PD, LMG, Railgun/IR Pulse with PDAI) or medium (Flak, Dual Flak, Heavy Burst Laser, Pulse LAer with PDAI) slots. However, it's very rare to need that much point defence, so lesser option will usually do. Don't get me wrong, the Paladin PD is very good at what it does - shooting down missiles.

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