Likewise, the ships had done away with Missile launchers and the like, fitting twin-mounted guns and more machine guns instead.
That made the two frigates, one named the Raging Flood Dragon and the other the Soaring Serpent, look decidedly old-fashioned. From a distance, turrets and machine guns seemed to cover every inch of them.
If the Many-Turret Cult existed in this world, its followers would surely love these Warships.
Of course, only the sheer number of turrets met their standards. As for the other three essentials of Riveted Steam Steel, the ships missed the mark entirely.
And if anyone saw the Battleship, they would probably stand there with their mouth hanging open, unable to take it in.
If the two Frigates looked old-fashioned, this Battleship was an outright antique.
Battleships had been obsolete ever since Aircraft Carriers were invented.
The Qinzhou dated back to the early days of the Thirty Years' War. It was also the last Battleship Great Chu had built.
It had been retired for who knew how many years and had become something of a naval museum.
Yet no one had expected this old Warship to be hauled out again after a refit.
This dreadnought displaced forty thousand tons and boasted immensely powerful armor and firepower.
Its guns alone—
Of course, even the thickest armor could not stop aerial bombs, and even the biggest naval gun could not match a Missile.
But now, radically modified and fitted with Nuclear Power, the Battleship was practically a mobile fortress at sea.
Its dreadnought-era main guns had been replaced, returning it to something like a pre-dreadnought design.
The Battleship, now renamed the Expedition, had four main guns and eighteen 152-millimeter quick-firing secondary guns.
It also carried twelve twin-mounted 127-millimeter antiaircraft guns, fifty-two triple-mounted 25-millimeter autocannons, six 22-millimeter autocannons, and two