^No, he’s entirely correct about the uselessness of a rotating turret on a TIE fighter, because the wings are in the way and it would be way easier to shoot yourself down in one of those than in The Last Crusade. Could you imagine Finn saying that:
“Poe, I’m sorry… they got us.”And I’ve always disliked the Millennium Falcon’s design, mainly the cockpit placement making no sense.
If World War One aircraft designers could figure out a way for pilots to fire bullets through the propellers, then making a blaster turret that won’t shoot the solar panels off should be easy.
That is not the point. Software switch could prevent turret from firing when aimed at wings. But the point is that wings block almost half of turret operational space, which makes it useless. Useless if that was a bomber, super useless on a fighter type of ship, which has no need for turret and should spend the extra weight on performance, i.e. better engines or weaponry actually useful for a fighter.
Anyway I am just repeating the stuff I already posted a page ago.