(The previous chapter's summary has been supplemented with the Blade-class fighter.)
Chapter 2355: Upgrading and Replacement
The moment they exchanged fire with those scaled-down warships, Admiral Gillard Perine immediately realized that although these vessels were much smaller, their combat capabilities had not diminished in the slightest!
The most obvious example was the scaled-down Kohl-class Battlecruiser. Its former length of 1,300 meters had been reduced to 837.2 meters, making it significantly smaller, with its volume cut by more than half.
Moreover, judging by the scaled-down Kohl-class battlecruisers currently in combat, these ships had each been fitted with an enormous twin Hypermatter Railgun above and below the hull, something they had not possessed before. Although the caliber of these Hypermatter Railguns had been reduced to 20 meters, their firepower remained terrifying. The power of two twin-mounted heavy guns naturally far surpassed that of the old single-shot spinal cannon.
These two turrets alone demonstrated the Kingdom of Dawn's technological progress. To install its enormous 40-meter-caliber Hypermatter Railgun, the old Kohl-class had required a semi-spinal cannon with an entire firing system over 500 meters long! Now, the 20-meter-caliber Hypermatter Railgun had a barrel only 142 meters long, and even including the turret, it was only 208 meters in length—and it was twin-mounted! The turret configuration was also far more flexible than the previous semi-spinal cannon, allowing it to target enemies without requiring the warship itself to turn.
With little reduction in firepower, they had directly split the firepower into four separate points. Not only was it more flexible, but it also covered a greater area, multiplying their firepower.
At the same time, the front of the ship had been replaced with a huge semi-spinal laser cannon, which likewise possessed terrifying firepower. But compared with its firepower, what was even more astonishing was that the