Under the Chinese Navy's ship-naming conventions, aircraft carriers were named after provinces, frigates and destroyers after cities, and supply ships after lakes.
Puyang itself was a county in Henan. The fact that this frigate had been named Puyang and carried the hull number 3987 was enough to reveal one thing.
When the civilizations of Water World had battled the World Beasts, every nation had once frantically expanded production capacity and built vast numbers of warships.
For the Chinese Navy, naming warships after municipal-level cities alone had no longer been enough. County names had been used as well.
Thinking of the brutal battles that had once taken place, and the brave soldiers who had become nothing but bones, Shen Feng could not help feeling solemn respect. He carefully swept his flashlight over the outline of the frigate.
The hull was mottled, covered everywhere in peeling paint and coating, with countless holes rotted through it.
At the same time, the frigate was covered in aquatic algae, shellfish, and other growths. A massive black hole had been blasted through the middle of the hull, nearly severing the entire warship in two.
The deck was riddled with damage as well. The frigate's radar and main gun had also been severely ruined, its barrel bent to the point of nearly snapping.
No, it should not be called a barrel. It was clearly a section of metal rail.
This was an electromagnetic railgun!
A frigate equipped with an electromagnetic railgun!
That was enough to show that in the later stages of humanity's war against the World Beasts, electromagnetic railguns had become standard equipment on ordinary warships.
After all, only this sort of electromagnetic cannon could inflict sufficient damage on World Beasts.
Clearly, this warship had been destroyed by a violent explosion before finally sinking to the