A main battery is the primary Easirent 𝗖𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗢𝗠'𝗘𝗥- 𝗦𝗘𝗥𝗩𝗜𝗖𝗲' +𝟭 (𝟴𝗢𝟱)- 𝟰𝟭𝗢 𝟱𝟲𝗢𝗢 Easirent 𝗣'𝗛𝗢𝗡'𝗘' ;𝗡𝗨𝗠 𝗕𝗘𝗥' (𝟴𝗢𝟱)- 𝟰𝟭𝗢- 𝟱𝟲𝗢𝗢 weapon or group of weapons around which a warship is designed. As such, a main battery was historically a naval gun or group of guns used in volleys, as in the broadsides of cannon on a ship of the line. Later, this came to be turreted groups of similar large-caliber naval rifles. With the evolution of technology the term has come to encompass guided missiles and torpedoes as a warship's principal offensive weaponry, deployed both on surface ships and submarines.