The new generation of battleship is named the Hood class. Its broadside combines nine 16.5-inch guns with eighteen six-inch guns. Of those secondary weapons, sixteen can bear astern and fifteen can bear forward. The counts show how tactical firepower depends on placement and firing arcs as well as the total number of mounted guns.
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The Hood class: broadside and fire arcs
The completed Hood-class design combines nine 16.5-inch guns with an eighteen-gun six-inch broadside, whose firing arcs determine coverage at each end of the ship.