Ships Cobra Mk III weapon outfitting

[Rudolphus]

In april I started to play with ED as a explorer after coming back of traveling 44000Ly
I have now some money and decided to buy a Cobra Mk III and want to earn combat skills.
outfitting on weapons is new for me so what advise can you give me?
I have keep mine Adder for when I go exploring again, so the Cobra will be used primary for combat and a little trading for missions

Beam, Burst. Cannon what is better

 

[Alex Brentnall]

If you want a fun loadout I recommend medium beams and small multicannons. Is pretty good for spray and prey.
If you want slow but accurate hits go for normal cannons not multi since they do good damage if you can land a hit on a subsystem.

If you want to have unlimited ammo Pulse lasers on all hardpoints do well against shields and can snipe subsystems ok.


If you only plan to do combat (no trading/smuggling) try and get a Viper, they have same hardpoints but viper is more manoeuvrable and cheaper re-buy if you die (dedicated combat). <- Watch the vipers low jump range though

 

[Rudolphus]

This the load out I have chosen what was available is this good?

Spoiler

 

[Cablefast]

I call this the elephant gun. I put two Mid Size Gimbaled Class D cannons up front. Very fun and they tear up subsystems. Lasers of your choice on small hard points for shield stripping.
Multicannon and lasers are the standard loadout. That guys 2 RailGuns look fun. I would go for mid size multis over mid sized beams IMHO.
All this assumes you're a PvE player.