(Answered) Weapon Destroyed / Malfunction Vehicle Crits

[Bandit Queen]

When a Combat Vehicle rolls a Weapon Destroyed or Weapon Malfunction on it's Critical Hits Table (TW, p.194), it states "Weapon Destroyed: One weapon mounted in the damaged location suffers major damage and ceases to function...The vehicle cannot fire that weapon for the remainder of the game." and "Weapon Malfunction: This critical hit causes a weapon mounted in the location struck to malfunction...The vehicle cannot fire that weapon until the malfunction is fixed...".

All of this language points directly to a piece of equipment that requires a target to function.  The key words being "weapon" and "fire".

1)   Does a Critical Hit, that results in a Weapon Destroyed or Weapon Malfunction, effect equipment with a type of E?

2)   Does a Critical Hit, that results in a Weapon Destroyed or Weapon Malfunction, effect equipment with a type of PE?

[Xotl]

Anything that takes up a weapon slot on a vehicle record sheet in this case is a "weapon" here.  Whatever is there has been critically hit, so it's broken regardless of what it is.