capital ships
Navy's largest vessels
Capital ships are the largest, most powerful warships in a naval fleet—the vessels around which battle strategy is built.
Historically this meant battleships and aircraft carriers; in science fiction, the term extends to massive starships that anchor a space fleet.
The designation implies military importance rather than mere size: The enemy's capital ships remained in reserve.
- flagshipsFleet commanders' vessels
- warshipsMilitary combat vessels
- battleshipsHeavily armed naval vessels
- line of battleTactical troop arrangement
- ironcladImpossible to dispute
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- Space Empireemperor, stormtroopers, Sith, dark lord, conquest
- Naval Diplomacyarms limitation, arms reduction, diplomatic talks
capital shipssmall craft
Minor waterborne vessels
corvettes · patrol boats · destroyers · frigates · torpedo boats
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