For the 100 time FF has access to Tulips and talking about its 8 second reload without talking about its 200 damage (that become even more with vet) is misleading.
For the 100th time, tulips are not free to use and shouldn't be mentioned in general reliability of vehicle, because they are NOT reliable in both, accessibility(cost) and accuracy(moving targets).
Damage is irrelevant here, high accuracy is a requirement created by abysmal reload.