21 hours ago, MasterShake2 said:

This is pretty backwards from how turrets were put on aircraft. Typically, the airframe was designed first, then they looked for places to put turrets. Both the waist guns and the top turret on a B-17 could hit parts of it's own plane if fired at the wrong angle. It's not super weird that the SW universe would have a similar approach to turret design and just put them on wherever the frame would allow it instead of having intentional concessions in the design to allow for better fields of fire.

20 hours ago, eMeM said:

I'm not sure if it's true that turret placement on heavy bombers was an afterthought, but IMO it shouldn't be on fictional ships that can be of any shape as the laws of aerodynamics don't concern them.

It's Star Wars, so I'd go for rule of cool in place of practicality any day, but this one just looks awkward to me.

Thats basically it.

The B-17 at first had no tail gun and no ventral turret under the cockpit.

The turret behind the bomb bay was a remote gun station at first and then got changed to the Ball turret er all know.

Bombers usally get stock turrets gut they may not be optimally placed.

For example the front dorsal ball turret of the B-17 got added as an afterthought after many B-17s got lost to German frontal attacks.

Maybe thats the way the K-Wing went. Just the frontal turret (which probably can also cover the dorsal and parts of the aft arc). After all the K-Wing is intended to be used with at least a 2:1 ratio of Escort to Bombers but in reality most times only 1:1 was possible. So maybe the top turret got added after this got a problem