broadside armament

Been spread over a wider area and wrecked her broadside armament or fire control?

Broadside armament also had disadvantages, which became more serious as ironclad technology developed.

"How much broadside armament did it cost us?"

By the 1650s, the line of battle had developed as a tactic that could take advantage of the broadside armament.

One reason they were designed with no broadside armament was to avoid weakening their sidewalls with gunports.

It had the potential to be an effective weapon against galleys, matching their forward firepower and severely outgunning them with its broadside armament.

Mahkneel shouted, fighting to get Arrowhead round so her own broadside armament would bear while the forward gun-ners reloaded.

As Baron Seamount had noted that very first day, however, none of those formations or tactics had been built around broadside armaments.

She returned to England in 1880 for refit, in which her broadside armament was reduced by 2 guns and she was re-rigged as a barque.

"Bearing in mind that these galleons of theirsare going to have a powerful broadside armament," Earl Sharpfield said, "I think we might be well advised to consider how best to approach them before we actually meet them."

Arrowhead's broadside armament might be little more than a joke compared to what King Cayleb's galleons were reported to mount, but eight falcons, each throwing an eight-pound shot, ought to be sufficient to deal with any mere merchantman.

Chapman intended for the craft to carry a broadside armament similar to that of the regular turumas, but this was rejected by Gustav who ordered the craft to be built with an armament consisting of only light swivel guns.

"As I'm sure you've noticed," she went on in the tones of a Saganami Island lecturer as she stood and used an old-fashioned light-pointer to pick out details on the holo, "she has no broadside armament at all-aside from her LACs, of course.