Why is my question still in moderation since Feb 14th?

Here is the particular scenario... I have an enemy ship class which has properties such as speed and hp. $$anonymous$$y ship should also have the ability to have multiple weapons. I would like the flexibility to assign different types of weapons to a single ship and have the ability for each type of weapon to have different characteristics depending on what values I set for the weapon type properties. Currently I have a base Weapon class which has properties common to all types of weapons, such as Rate of Fire, Bullet Type, Damage amount per shot, whether it can do burst fire, etc. There are also common methods applicable to all weapon types, such as Firing and When it gets hit. I then use inheritance and derive classes from the base Weapon class for each type of weapon. Right now, in my ship class I am defining properties which I am passing to each instance of the weapon class (multiple weapons). This allows me pass different values for Rate of Fire, Bullet Type, Damage amount, etc. which means I can have various enemy ships that behave slightly differently. I feel like defining the same properties twice, once in the ship class and then again in the weapon class is not the right way to go? Is there a better way to do what I'm wanting?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions :)