you can make weapons and have them with a ship model and make a specific shot for it, but it's a bit of a trial and error thing, but then again you can pick and choose all your ships, but then again they're not npc they ust fly with you. All i have seen about npc wingmen is they are multiplayer only and some theories are that allied people will start scanning you- but not finish- so the follow you around, I'm not quite sure if that's true.

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