An ordinary frigate was not very large, only about ten times the volume of Star-Lord's little ship.
Small had its advantages: flexibility, a smaller target, and a lower chance of being hit. But for combat units, bigger had its advantages too.
Bigger meant that, with the same level of technology, it could hold more powerful energy sources, support higher-consumption and more destructive weapons, and produce greater devastation and deterrence.
At present, spacecraft classifications basically referred to the naval warship classifications of the old era. The lowest tier was small vessels like Frigates, mainly responsible for more flexible missions.
At this tier, Harry planned to add a type of Destroyer. Frigates would later be designed to enter the atmosphere and provide support for the army.
A Destroyer was roughly three times the size of a frigate. If the weapons carried by frigates counted as small, then the weapons carried by Destroyers at this tier could already be called medium shipborne weapons.
Destroyers would serve as the vanguard of the fleet, positioned at the outermost edge of the defensive perimeter.
Above them came Cruisers. Cruisers occupied the second layer of the defensive perimeter. Ships of this size were already approaching the kilometer scale and could carry large shipborne weapons. Using the same technology, large shipborne weapons had more than ten times the power of small shipborne weapons.
There had been no bottlenecks in designing Warships at this scale, but the Osborn Group's arsenal could not keep up.
Why could it not keep up? Even the most powerful large X laser emitter currently available could not inflict serious damage on a Cruiser in a single strike.
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