The Naval Base of the Unnamed Ship Girls

"Pfft..." The avant-garde almost spat out a mouthful of fuel.

90-meter caliber?

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Chapter 198 The Cannon That Makes Ships Droole

"90 meters?" Adon asked Hyperion, seemingly somewhat incredulous.

"My entire body is dedicated to the Yamato Cannon, so it's normal for it to be a bit thick," Hyperion replied, still debating whether it was 90 meters or 80 meters.

“No, I meant only 90 meters?” Adun heard Hyperion repeat his question, misunderstanding his intention.

"Huh? How big do you think it should be? A strong magnetic field with a diameter of 90 meters is already the limit of Imperial technology. Anything larger can only be found in the laboratory. I heard that the latest Vulcan battlecruiser has a slightly larger diameter than mine. Why don't you go ask her?"

Hyperion made a strange comment to Adun.

"Vulcan? I remember you sank it, didn't you?" When he heard Hyperion mention Vulcan, Adun recalled the boast Hyperion had made back then.

"Uh, Izusa helped out, but I did manage to land the last shot. If you ever summon the Vulcan again, remember to stop it for me." Hyperion said, sounding like he might not be able to defeat the Vulcan.

“…” Adon looked at Hyperion with a slightly disdainful gaze.

"Hey, I'm an old-fashioned behemoth-class, several generations removed from that brat Vulcan! If you hadn't modified me, I might not even be able to beat a Minotaur-class now."

Because of Adun's disdainful look, Hyperion, who was a little agitated, responded.

“Oh, an old-fashioned ship… I understand.” Adun continued to provoke Hyperion in a calm tone.

"Aaaaah! Who the hell is an old-fashioned ship! I'm only a teenager, how can I compare to you, a thousand-year-old granny like Adun! What kind of solar energy are you using? If an unknown ship heard this, it would think you were a water heater!"

Pulling out a knock-off of the small revolver from Commander Lei Rishen, the Hyperion, with the air of a battlecruiser ready to rebel, demand freedom, and oppose oppression, turned into a flagship.

Then, the ship girls who were patching up and repairing the damaged hull of the Vanguard Glory ship saw a familiar ship shadow fly several kilometers away.

"Wow, the Hyperion can fly too!" Rodney exclaimed in surprise as he painted with his sister.

"Being able to fly should be the foundation of a spaceship, right?" Nelson glanced at it and then continued working diligently.

“But this posture…” Rodney glanced at his sister and, seeing that Nelson didn’t seem to care much, turned back to continue painting.

"Splash..." The Hyperion, which had been thrown several kilometers away, fell into the water. However, this time it did not attract the attention of the ship girls. In any case, the one-sided violence of Adun and Hyperion was already commonplace, and this should not drown the starship girls.

"Ahem, it's just that you have high combat power. Considering our past friendship in the same trench, I'll forgive you this time." Hyperion, who had almost sunk to the bottom of the sea, said as he jumped back to the surface.

"Forgive me?" Adun asked curiously as he floated beside Hyperion.

"Ahem, haven't you heard of the 'Ah Q spirit'?" Seeing Adun approaching, Hyperion, realizing that what he had just said had gone too far, immediately backed down.

"What is the spirit of Ah Q?" Yadun had never heard of such a thing.

"Oh right, I forgot you're Protoss," Hyperion said with a hint of helplessness.

After Adun and Hyperion caused such a commotion, all the ship girls on the ship, including Charlotte, knew that the two starship girls were going to do modifications for Vanguard.

Everyone put down their work and crowded into the multi-purpose conference room, even the deep-sea ships came to join in the fun.

"Huh? This is a renovation plan? How... how..." Rodney looked at the renovation plan floating in front of him, then at the former midfielder, and said, "Why does it look so much like a large luxury cruise ship?"

The isolation chamber used to seal off the kinetic energy matrix radiation, as projected on the modification plan, does indeed look very much like the area used as a hotel on a luxury cruise ship.

"I'm not a large luxury cruise ship, that's a radiation isolation chamber!" Vanguard said, not understanding the difference between radiation and kinetic energy dissipation. Besides being teased about his outdated main gun, Vanguard also hated being called a large luxury cruise ship.

“Radiation isolation chamber? Nuclear-powered?” Nelson asked, glancing at Adun after hearing what Vanguard said.

"That's a kinetic energy matrix, not nuclear power," Adun explained, manipulating the projection in front of him to rejoin the previous simulated battle and demonstrate the power of a kinetic energy matrix cannon.

"Wow, the avant-garde has become so powerful," Charlotte exclaimed, impressed by the power of the light sphere.

"Actually, it's not that powerful. The attack interval is still quite long." Although it hasn't been officially modified yet, and although he was a little embarrassed, Avant-garde still fully accepted Charlotte's praise.

"What about these two cannons?" Rodney pointed to the two circular areas in front of the kinetic energy matrix. As a ship girl, she could barely recognize that the two things that looked like cannons were cannons.

"Well, let me explain. Although it's an old-fashioned one, it's Imperial technology, with a three-year or 100,000-round warranty," Hyperion explained when someone asked about the two gun emplacements modified from the Arc Light Siege Tank.

"A 180mm anti-fortress gun? Is that small caliber powerful enough?" All the ship girls present raised the same question as Vanguard.

"Adun, let's put together a simulation battle." Hyperion felt he needed to explain in more detail.

"Simulate what? The one from before?" Yaton waved his hand, and the modified projection appeared in a new sea area.

"Increase the number, hmm, bring out more low-level deep-sea destroyers, yes, that's it." Hyperion said with satisfaction as he saw Adun projecting hundreds of deep-sea destroyers and a few light cruisers scattered among them onto the projection sea area.

"So many destroyers? Can the Vanguard handle them?" Renown looked at the projection with some concern, as if the Vanguard were really fighting inside.

"Don't worry, they won't get through. Activate the siege main cannons, interval firing mode, use bombardment shells, fire!" Hyperion waved his hand, and the two main cannons on the vanguard projection, which had slightly deformed, fired two shells one after the other.

Then the ship girls saw two bursts of fire erupt in the deep-sea destroyer fleet, which should theoretically be beyond the range of the sixteen-inch main guns.

Although Adun did not simulate the sound, all the ship girls could feel the destructive power of those two 180mm caliber fortress cannons. Although they were hitting a thin-skinned destroyer, and the density of those deep-sea destroyers was absurdly high, the power was still surprising to the ship.

Before the ship girls could finish their surprise, two more clusters of flowers exploded in the Abyssal Destroyer Fleet, taking away several Abyssal Destroyers.

"This rate of fire?" Charlotte, as a normally graduated admiral, still keenly noticed the unusual aspect.

"Vanguard, did you use a skill?" Reputation, who had also noticed the unusual feature, asked Vanguard.

"...That's a projection, not me. Besides, my skills are useless against 180mm cannons." Vanguard spoke as if he were still perfectly fine here, not having gotten into a fight with those deep-sea destroyers.

"So that means?" Reputation glanced at Hyperion with a very strange look in his eyes.

"This is the normal rate of fire. It is a bit slow, but don't worry, there will be times when it's faster." As Hyperion said this, he didn't notice that the battleship girls in the room were looking at him differently.

With a firing rate of nearly 10 rounds per minute, a main gun with power no less than a 460mm caliber, and an extremely long range, the accuracy is unknown, but as long as the first three points are met, any ship girl who loves big guns will drool.

Chapter 199 We're just changing your name

Although these gun-obsessed ship girls from Naval Base No. 233 were very interested in the 180mm rapid-fire fortress cannons that Hyperion had equipped the Vanguard with, they were surprised to learn that activating siege mode would greatly affect their speed.

Having already suffered enough from the disadvantages of slow speed, Nelson and Rodney could only look regretfully at the vanguard who was unleashing his full power in the projection.

Renown, who had been transformed into an immortal ship girl, also discovered that her current body could not be equipped with the main gun of this human tank, which made her slightly regretful.

Prinz Eugen, being a heavy cruiser, was quite interested. Adding one wouldn't have a significant impact on Prinz Eugen, which is already a high-speed ship. However, after testing, Prinz Eugen discovered that its ship rigging could not accommodate such a "long-range" main gun.

This is for battlecruisers and battleships only, and has nothing to do with heavy cruisers. For this reason, Prinz Eugen could only stand there drawing circles in his eyes, wondering why 180mm could be considered a main gun for battleships. Are they looking down on heavy cruisers?!

While the cannon enthusiasts at Naval Base 233 looked disappointed, the ship girls under Adun's command remained calm. Wo-chan and Kaga wondered, "What are cannons? Can you eat them?" Nautilus and Yu, on the other hand, watched the avant-garde projection unleash its full power with worried expressions.

Especially after those deep-sea destroyer projections had surrounded the Vanguard, the Vanguard's two 180mm siege main guns transformed into two pairs of 80mm electromagnetic guns. Combined with the Vanguard's high attack speed from its Iron Curtain capability, the Vanguard's projection transformed from a slow arsenal ship into a high-speed, dreadnought fighter.

Watching the electromagnetic cannons, with their absurdly fast turning speeds, sink one deep-sea destroyer after another without any resistance, the two deep-sea submarines, which still had a bit of awareness as deep-sea ship girls, showed slightly terrified expressions.

However, although the avant-garde projection was devastating in the simulated battlefield, it ultimately sank because of sheer numbers.

After all, the current modification plans designed for Adun and Hyperion only involve adding a few gun emplacements and do not focus on defensive capabilities. So even if they go on a rampage and look very powerful, they still cannot withstand the torpedoes of so many destroyers.

As the projection of the Glory Form of the Vanguard was blown up and sank several sections, Adun even used the language of this world to describe the words "Game Over".

"Glory form is still quite dangerous." Even though it was just a projection of himself, Vanguard still clenched his legs together, looking terrified.

"The usual outcome of a single ship charging in in Glory form, Rodney, you should take this as a warning," Nelson admonished his sister.

"Oh, wait, I don't have the Hero's Certificate yet." Rodney said "oh" before realizing that his sister's education of him was a bit premature.

"Judging from the fact that the defenses are not modified, even in ship-mounted form, the situation is not optimistic for the Vanguard." The head maid, Renown, stared at the words "Game Over" in front of her and gave her conclusion.

"That's a real shame. If you have extra resources, you should pay attention to increasing the waterline armor next time," Adun said to Hyperion in a tone that suggested he couldn't afford to tarnish the company's reputation.

“High-compression Adamantium is definitely unaffordable, but the multi-layered alloy steel from Iron Raven should be very useful,” Hyperion replied, finding Adun’s words quite reasonable.

"Hey, I haven't sunk yet, why are you all acting like you're doing a post-war assessment?" Vanguard complained, feeling like he had fallen silent in the conversation between these ship girls.

"Just kidding, don't take it seriously." As Adon spoke, he wiped away the projection in front of him, and the Vanguard Glory ship hull reappeared. At the same time, the estimated normal ship equipment form of the Vanguard also appeared next to the Vanguard Glory ship hull.

The original four detachable pot-shaped cannons were replaced by a larger frying pan carried on the back of the vanguard, while the transformable siege gun assemblies from the Arc Light Siege Tank were mounted on the left and right shoulders of the vanguard.

"So ugly..." Vanguard looked at his top-heavy ship equipment form and said unhappily.

"Can't you have your cake and eat it too?" Hyperion didn't think the avant-garde look was that bad; the Teren Empire had plenty of top-heavy, bottom-light weapons.

"If the Vanguard is modified like this?" Charlotte, who, like Hyperion, didn't think the Vanguard looked worse, asked as if something had occurred to her, "Will its anti-air capability still be there?"

"Air defense?" Hyperion was taken aback by Charlotte's question. "What air defense?"

"Anti-aircraft..." Adun, who was also stunned for a moment, saw the overwhelming deep-sea carrier-based bombers from the previous battle simulated on the projection in front of him.

Then, under the watchful eyes of all the ship girls, the modified Vanguard projected two pairs of 80mm electromagnetic cannons and a kinetic matrix with an extremely slow rate of fire. When facing aircraft that were overwhelming them with sheer numbers, its anti-aircraft effect was not as good as the six-barreled Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft guns on the Vanguard before the modification.

After several simulations ended with Vanguard's deck being washed, the ship girls of Naval Base No. 233 looked at Vanguard with sympathy.

"Ah, I don't want this." Seeing his projection being repeatedly washed on the deck, the vanguard seemed to recall the era when battleships were replaced by aircraft carriers. He covered his head and squatted on the ground, unable to bear watching his projection being bullied any longer.

"If the vanguard doesn't have anti-air capabilities, wouldn't he be transferred to the reserves?" Rodney said, looking at the vanguard who was squatting on the ground with his head in his hands with a sympathetic look.

"Maybe they'll be retired early?" Nelson made the outcome sound a bit more serious. For the ship girls of Naval Base No. 233, anti-air capability is a basic requirement. For these battleship girls who have been in a state of losing air superiority for many years, not being able to shoot down planes is no different from being a salted fish.

“Oops, I miscalculated.” Hyperion, realizing what had gone wrong, glanced at Adun and said.

“Hmm…” Adon thought for a moment and said, “Then let’s add some anti-aircraft modules.”

“But where do you put the anti-aircraft gun? With so little space left, it wouldn’t make much sense to fill it with anti-aircraft guns.” Hyperion was reluctant to combine the two 180mm transforming siege guns into one.

"I remember your human race has a pretty good anti-missile drone, as well as a fixed-point machine gun," Adun asked Hyperion, having gathered some knowledge from his memory bank.

“Oh, the Raven’s automatic machine guns and fixed-point defense target drones? They are indeed very useful… but they require a construction module.” After correcting Adun’s misnomer, Hyperion looked at the modified projection of the Vanguard and couldn’t see where a construction module would be placed.

“I think this is a good spot…” Ardon pointed to the lower level of the hull of the kinetic matrix protection compartment.

"You don't want the engine anymore?" Hyperion compared the size of the stern area of ​​the Vanguard hull and found that it was quite suitable for placing the construction modules.

"What do you think the kinetic matrix should be doing normally?" Adun said with a smile.

“That’s a good idea. Although you just removed the main engine and it can’t fly, it should be fine for sailing at sea.” Hyperion and Adun agreed immediately after understanding.

"What...what are you talking about?" Vanguard asked weakly upon hearing that the modification involved the engine room. For a ship girl, modifying the engine room is something that makes her feel embarrassed in every way.

“We’re just changing your name.” Hyperion, with a pipe in his mouth, took a puff of his ammunition cigarette and continued, “How about something like Storm Arc Iron Raven Siege Battleship Vanguard?”