Fire Nation Navy

Fire Nation Navy

The Fire Nation Navy is part of the vast and powerful arsenal available to Fire Lord Ozai. The  navy is composed of countless ironclad vessels that are powered by coal and manned by Firebenders as well as regular troops. The ships attack by using steel trebuchets and ballista which can fire at immensely long distances.The Fire Nations advanced ability to purify ore in earth to create metal is so efficient that by reducing the impurities(fragments of earth)on the ships they cannot be damaged by earthbending unless the bender is familiar with metalbending. So far only Toph has been able to damage a ship in this fashion.The ships are also prone to problems with Waterbenders as they can force a ship aground by converting water into ice to surround and penetrate its hull.The ships all vary in size and appearance probably to reflect the status or its role in the fleet. For example Admiral Zhao's flagship in the "Siege of the North" had a large dragon on the hull. Princess Azula's Royal Sloop also had several spikes on it's hullas well as a pagoda command tower or bridge. It is unknown how many ships are in the Fire Navy. Admiral Zhao attacked the North Pole with hundreds of vessels and the Fire Nation most likely has hundreds more available to them.