Sorry, only one chapter today, apologies.
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The sounds of cannon fire and machine guns are incessant.
The "Renown" and "Repulse" are engaged in fierce anti-aircraft combat.
However, calling it combat is somewhat misleading; it's actually a passive beating.
The battlecruiser is a high-speed vessel with battleship firepower but reduced protection, designed to compensate for the battleship's slow speed to avoid being unable to chase or hit the enemy.
Due to lack of emphasis, the whole ship has only three "Pom-pom guns" and five Vickers Machine Guns for air defense.
(The above image shows the "Pom-pom gun" used on the warships for air defense, which was not upgraded to an octuple mount until around 1930, but still remained unsatisfactory)
This weak anti-aircraft firepower can hardly threaten the French Army's dive bombers.
