Noticed this in a swarm of Sotho gunschips, They were pretty tightly packed together. Floating towards their target while facing in multiple directions. When their target came in range every ship started their thrusters and they collectively moved towards their target, even the Sotho's thrusting in the opposite direction accellerated towards the target without turning into it's direction.

george moromisato 6 May 2016:

Need to investigate.

ferdinand 6 Sep 2016:

It also happens in the game, most notable up to date is when playing with the Renegade mod. The Dringend Class Shuttle from the Macht Faction are quite large en when you attack their station they come in to attack the player in the same formation as when they were docked to the station. So if there are four of them they fly to you in a Cross Shape formation, pointing in four different directions with full thrusters on, which is quite hilarious to see.