Hogg never would have understood.
One hundred kilometers, a safe distance from his perspective, was no longer safe in front of Celestial Trade's electromagnetic pulse cannon. It was just the typical crossfire distance.
After two rounds of upgrades, the ship-borne electromagnetic pulse cannons on the Guardian-class frigate was no longer a modified version of the Type-50 electromagnetic pulse cannon, but an actual anti-ship cannon designed for warships. A shell 50 kilograms in mass could easily shred a ship with the same tonnage into two.
Even the 2,000-ton frigate could output damage equivalent to a battleship. The Celestial Trade Guardian-class perfectly demonstrated the tactical concept of "small boats equipped with giant cannons" to the extreme. They pioneered the naval warfare to the 22nd-century era where "destroyed upon observation" was the moto.
