sentences:  The 24 cm guns were, however, the largest weapons for which Krupp, the supplier of naval artillery to the "Kaiserliche Marine" (Imperial Navy), had developed quick-firing technology.The German naval command typically favored high rates of fire rather than heavy shells, on the principal that a flurry of shells would wreck the guns and superstructure of enemy battleships faster than powerful but slow-firing guns.But by the time design work on the "Braunschweig" class began, Krupp had developed a quick-firing gun, and so the naval command decided to adopt it for the new ships.