dreadnought
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battleship that has big guns all of the same caliber
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A further step change in naval firepower occurred when the United Kingdom launched HMS Dreadnought (1906), but naval tactics still emphasized the line of battle.
Arms race seeAlso In 1897, before the revolution in design brought about by HMS Dreadnought, the Royal Navy had 62 battleships in commission or building, a lead of 26 over France and 50 over Germany.
After retrieving the Sunfire, a weapon which can blow up the Dreadnought, they watch helplessly as an airship with Hilda on board is captured by the Dreadnought.
As of Nemesis the Enterprise, the Lakota, the Valiant, the Defiant, and the unmanned spacecraft Dreadnought were the only ships known to be equipped with quantum torpedoes.
Although described as a self-guided missile, in practice Dreadnought functions much like an autonomous starship, and it even had life support capability on board.
Estimated cost for new dreadnoughts was placed at 36.5 million marks for 19,000 tons displacement ships (larger than Dreadnought at 17,900 tons), and 27.5 million marks for battle-cruisers. 60 million mark was allocated for dredging the canal.