Whats the difference between the three (or more) Iroon weapons?

[Hinsonator]

Hello all.
I've been looking at the megalodon's specs in Rougey's X3AP site and saw that they can use the three Iron weapons, and i'm wondering which ones are the best agenst what?

[Lain]

weapons have no real better against its really its fireing rate vs damage like lower damage and fast shots will be for strike craft medium damage for corvets to fridgites and heavy for fridgites and all else

[Jerm]

Do you mean ION weapons? not IRON?

[Hinsonator]

ah yeah damn i've been playing too much MineCraft and Terraria and not enough sci-fi

[DeathAtWork]

ION disruptors, are used to tear down shields and destroy equipment on a ship that you are trying to board, like Firewall, Laser sentries and polarized hull plating. All this with minimal hull damage.

ION cannons are capital weapons, which makes huge damage to shields.

Rest is just for regular fighting, some fast hitting, some slow but hard hitting.

Common thing, is that they do lots of shield damage, and lower than most comparable weapons as hull damage.

[ScorpiusX]

Ion Shard Railguns (a Split weapon not a Boron one) mess with the targets weapons and are a fast firing weapon good for taking out fighters and M6s.

Ion Cannons do mainly shield dmg but also mess the targets engines and weapons

Ion Pulse Generators are a smaller version of the Ion Cannon that messes with the targets engines

Ion Disruptors are pretty much just like Death@Work described, once a targets shields are down the ID will start to burn through any equipment on the target ship i.e. shields, weapons, software, jumpdrives etc. The thing to note with the ID though is that when it fires it cause an arc of lightning between your ship and the target AND any other close by ship wether freind or foe, so BE CAREFUL when using the ID.