It is not AA turret just because it can't turn at least 90 degrees vertical. It is important. And AI is so weak now...
That one wasn't built as strictly anti-drone/fighter, but you shouldn't be putting all of your turrets on the same plane anyway. Should have a mix of positions.
I can test 4 turrets against 6 drones. But ship vs ship is easier to test then turret vs ship
Was starting to say, would you have put 4 fighters up against 12 drones? But again, that one was specifically made to be part of a broader turret arrangement. Pretty sure though that one on one the turret will win.
But your main ship is way more efficient at generating power.
Your turret generates ~185.88 e/s per power reactor block.
A properly designed power reactor setup on a large ship generates ~400-800 e/s per power reactor block.
You could take those power reactor blocks and just stick them on your main ship for way more power.
Not if your ship is already soft-capped you can't, then regular reactor blocks are at 25 e/sec.
You can bypass the 2m soft cap with shared docked power.
Docked generators were rendered unviable with the last patch. Once you're at soft cap, you have to use auxilary power blocks now.
Maximum efficiency on Aux Power is just over 190 e/sec per block, and it takes nearly 10,000 blocks of the stuff to reach that.
So no, the power generation game has changed, and it is much more difficult and much more dangerous to produce power over the soft cap these days.