Gun Emplacement

Gun emplacements are a type of robot encountered in Appalachia.

Background
A fixed defensive emplacement mounting a 50 mm cannon in a cast turret, capable of firing in a 360 degree radius, mounted on a concrete foundation. These military-grade emplacements were a popular choice for providing security at strategic locations across Appalachia, such as the Wade Airport, Poseidon Energy Plant WV-06, or the converted munitions factory.

Characteristics
Although the gun emplacement is modeled with a 50 mm barrel, it actually fires a 12.7mm (.50 caliber) round, roughly four times smaller than its appearance would suggest. It's effectively a .50 caliber machine gun with a relatively low fire rate: It does twice as much damage as a regular machine gun turret and 20% more damage than its heavy variant. Its key advantages over constructible turrets are that it has 250 health as opposed to 200 available to the runner-up, the heavy machine gun, and doesn't require power to function.

The emplacement can easily fire on targets in the air, such as scorchbeasts; however, the gun cannot depress low enough to target smaller attackers, such as mongrels or mole rats, which can close in and attack them point blank with impunity. Damaged emplacements can be repaired and will defend the area from hostile creatures.

Although relatively powerful for a defensive turret, it is sporadically found at claimable public workshops, such as the aforementioned ones, and have to be repaired to become functional.

Statistics

 * Provides 8 workshop defense.
 * Medium stagger

Crafting
The plan for crafting gun emplacements is not obtainable, but the recipe is implemented in the game:

Repair
The component costs do not decrease with the use of Contractor.

Appearances
Gun emplacements appear only in Fallout 76.