Munitions Empire

Chapter 1147: 1067 Bernard’s Choice

The naming convention for warships in the Tang Empire is actually quite lazy and featureless. Typically, Tang Army warships are only named by their classification, followed by a sequence of numbers.

For instance, the battleships of the Great Tang Empire are named Dongwan 1 and Dongwan 2… It doesn’t sound very impressive, even carrying a strong cheap flavor.

The Beiyuan-class destroyers are the most produced type of destroyer by the Great Tang Empire, which, based on the Fletcher-class destroyers, increased the tonnage, improved the blue-water capabilities of the warship, and sacrificed a bit of speed.

From a practical standpoint, the Beiyuan-class is a scaled-up Fletcher, with a tonnage increased to 4500 tons, maintaining crew levels around 400, and without a significant increase in armament.

Therefore, this type of warship has its own characteristics in many aspects: it can conduct long-duration operations at sea, holds more anti-submarine ammunition, and is equipped with larger generators and more advanced radar systems.

To adapt to various sea conditions, the Beiyuan-class destroyers also adopted a more enclosed design for the bridge, which could make the working environment within it more comfortable.

Some captains prefer to open all the side doors and command the battle with the sea breeze blowing—that’s another matter altogether.

The Great Tang Empire produced a total of 100 Beiyuan-class destroyers, which, along with the Weigang-class destroyers and the Fengshun-class cruisers, formed the backbone of the Great Tang Empire Navy’s forces.