As you can understand from the title, when you build any of the modules that help ships in range (for attack or defence), should one be able to see the effects on the ship? I think yes because when you hover the mouse over the statistics of the ship, it show starbase bonus. If this is true then there is a bug since even though i have the starbase modules, my ships don't get their stats adjusted. Below are 2 screenshots to show this:
military starbase:
http://img131.imageshack.us/img131/5972/no14jw.jpg
ship (no bonuses??? And YES it's in range of the military starbase):
http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/6984/no23vi.jpg