main battery
Ship's biggest weapons
The main battery is a warship's primary armament—its largest and most powerful guns, as distinct from secondary batteries used against smaller targets.
On a battleship, the main battery might be massive turrets with 16-inch guns: The Missouri's main battery could strike targets twenty miles away.
The term extends to any principal weapon system on naval vessels.
- powerEnergy transfer rate
- power cellDevice storing electrical energy
- turretProtruding fortified structure
- big gunsInfluential, powerful people
- warshipArmed naval vessel
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main batteryanti-aircraft guns
Weapons targeting airborne threats
AA battery · light guns · small arms · machine guns · torpedo tubes
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