I've done a couple of searches and can't seem to find this, but I'm guessing someone did this a long, long time ago: a list of all the weapons in the stock game listed by weapon damage/ton? Preferably, a column that lists weapon damage/ton/research cost would even be better....
Re: Detailed list of weapons by tonnage and resear
You could just do a high tech start and use the function when designing a vessel. There is a button to show you each weapons range and damage and stuff.
Re: Detailed list of weapons by tonnage and resear
You could also use the SEIV Modder by DavidD, a nice program which would give you the total research cost for any component, its damage/ton value and its damage/ton/fire rate value.