Community goal confusion - Enhanced AX Missile Rack or Multicannon (gimballed)?

The title says "Development of Enhanced AX Missile Rack (Gimballed)"

But the description says "This campaign is for a gimbal-mounted version of the enhanced AX multi-cannon"

So which is it?
 
Maybe not the place to ask, but... what's the deal with AX missile racks. They seem to have less DPS, more thermal load, more power draw, and a worse percentage of AX damage... Or maybe I'm just reading the numbers completely wrong. What am I missing here.
 
64 damage, roughly 20 Explosive and 44 AX (Enhanced)

I believe the in-game sheet stats are notionally the damage a non-xeno target would take before resistances (so 100% of the Explosive plus 10% of the AX) = 20+4.4 = 24.4

Standard AX missiles were buffed with Update 14 by 7-8 total damage. I don't know what the AX/Explosive breakout is, but EDSY has it at 20 / 37 (this would be 23.7 on the sheet, but I can't verify as I don't own any Turreted AX Missile Launchers anymore).

That would make damage a side-grade per the in game sheet (but my recollection matches your reaction: that sheet damage showed a nerf).

The new Enhanced Missiles have more of the total weapon damage being allocated to AX. So my best guess is they're using pre-update 14 human damage numbers for the Standard AX Turret Missiles and "correctly" showing the new AX weapons do less damage to human targets relative the the (old?) standard AX weapons. Insert standard plug about how messed up In-Game information is.

The shot speed increase is enough to justify the increased power load though.

Maybe not the place to ask, but... what's the deal with AX missile racks. They seem to have less DPS, more thermal load, more power draw, and a worse percentage of AX damage... Or maybe I'm just reading the numbers completely wrong. What am I missing here.
 
I like how no one has answered to OP's actual question.

I'm curious too

Why does the Title of the CG state it's for the Missile Rack.

But the Description says it's for the Multi Cannon.

??????
 
The CG in Apala is for the gimbaled multicannons. The CG in Kappa Reticuli is for the fixed missile rack.

Inara has them correct:

 
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