Battery

A Battery is the armament of the Colonial Fleets warships (including battlestars), the battery is a cluster of guns or missile launchers and can vary in number and arrangement depending on the class. In the modern day naval nomenclature, the main battery is the primary offensive weapon on ships.
== Gun Clusters ==
=== Ammunition ===
The large turrets of the Colonial Battlestars fire different types of ammunition, depending on the mission or objective:
* Flak ammunition: which explodes metal fragments at high velocity, creating a defensive barrier to protect the ship from enemy raiders or missiles, so that Vipers could launch out of the Flight Pods of a Battlestar. 
* Offensive ammunition: this type of ammo, like the name suggests, is to explode upon impact of a basestar or another type of ship. This ammo can be fired in salvos from the main gun of a Colonial Capital Ship (ex. Galacticatype Battlestar or Loki-type Heavy Cruiser) and can damage unarmored sections of a Cylon Basestar.
As for the recoil of the barrel of the gun turrets after firing a Flak round it cannot reload right away and a high rate of fire. The ammunition of these guns are heavy and the gun crew can't push it into the barrel, they are loaded by mechanical hoist.
Category:Weapons
Category:Colonial technology
Category:Cylon technology