I'm having trouble finishing a mission in Freespace: Silent Threat. The mission is Secret recovery, the one where you're supposed to protect a transport ship while it boards a hijacked science station Giordano. You're fighting Hammer of light fighters, and there's a Typhon destroyer that pumps out infinite amounts of fighters.
I simply cannot last until the transport does it's job. Either the transport dies, or I do.
At least one of my wingmates usually dies during the first skirmish, and more often than not, all of them do. And I fight pretty well, I take out the toth fighters within seconds. I tried using hercules fighter, and the ulysses. Few other combinations too. Nothing helps.
I can break through and last for a few minutes while the transport docks, but soon, either I run out of hull or, if I tried to play conservatively, they kill the transport.
Any tactics that can help me defeat this mission? I completed FS and FS2, no such problems.

Thanks.
I haven't tried disabling the typhons guns. I guess that would have helped. Kinda always assumed fighters did the most damage.
Anyway, I finished the mission by destroying the Giordano. I simply got sick of trying to protect it.