I ' m very trashy on the side . <| sep |> Salutations , From what little factual information I have been able to glean . the F 7 C Wildfire will come with a ball turret , where the stock F 7 C doesn ' t . Although one can purchase modules to add a top gun mount for it and swap out the weapons on the original stock F 7 C . So , no . ships prior to 2 . 6 are ' not ' inferior per se , just differently configured , weapon wise . A consideration . with insurance , if a craft is lost it is replaced along with its ' stock ' loadout . Any non stock gear purchased and placed on your ship would not be replaced . With the new variants the same process would be followed and the new specific loadouts of the variants would be replaced if you had insurance . I currently perceive the F 7 C Wildfire , for example , as a single seat baby Super Hornet . I expect to find out more about it this afternoon during the Wildfire sale . The F 7 A is a different story . It is the ' full military version ' of the Hornet . In is unavailable for civilian purchase and it should outperform all other variations . After all . it IS the full military version .