Link to original mod: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Hovercrafts
[This mod right here is a standalone mod! It is in its nature incompatible with the original mod]

This mod adds a new assault hovercraft with greater mass and armour than a standard hovercraft. It also comes with a machine gun turret attached to it. You can research it after you research the basic hovercraft blueprint. Unlike the missile hovercraft, this variant does not require military science packs to be researched and you don't need to have rocketry researched.

A small edit for the "Hovercrafts" mod. I really wanted an assault hovercraft with a machine gun strapped to it. I asked on the original mod page if there any plans for a machine gun hovercraft but got no response in a satisfying timeframe. I'm not a modder but tried doing some mods for barotrauma and it was a lot of fun, so here I am playing with mod files again.

@Arcani_Victus if you'd like to include this mod into the original feel free to do so. I'll be happy for this to be fused into the main mod.