You're a pussy.

This.

The wings are there as stabilizers, and they can mount guiding boosters onto them. Also, they do have weapons on them if I recall the opening scene of Sector Z or the Asteroid field correctly where it uses lazers from the wing tips to destroy meteors.

There is also that they deflect attacks to the main hull. If aiming from the side, a shot would hit the wing instead of the main hull, and the damage wouldn't be too bad.

I just got an awesome idea for a character fight. Brb.