"Weapons " are, quite literally, weapon systems that spaceships in the game use. Compared to turrets, which is another kind of weapon system available in the game, weapons behave more like real-life guns. Their direction of attack is restricted to their mounted forward direction, which is most likely the forward direction of the spaceships.Weapons are most commonly used by S-sized ships, and less used by M-sized ships (M-sized ships may equip some turrets instead). Rarely, they are even used in L-sized shipsare used by the primary and secondary weapon systems of ships to launch beams, missiles and projectiles at other ships during combat to deal damage. The equipment slots for weapons are always in the same orientation as the cockpit of the ship. Compared to Turrets the angle of rotation of weapons is limited to an arc in front of the ship however they have a greater damage output at the cost of poorer heat management. Weapons assigned to the primary weapons system will try to automatically follow the selected target while those assigned to the secondary weapons system will try to follow the cursor. Torpedo Launchers can only be mounted on weapon slots.
What ships can equip weapons is determined by their role and size class.