Talk:Prototype 61cm Sextuple (Oxygen) Torpedo Mount/@comment-26874340-20160527175433/@comment-217.198.193.193-20160706145942

"Akizuki-class were most certainly not escort destroyers."

Just because the Akizukis had more guns and were larger doesn't mean they weren't escorts. The IJNs frontline DDs would be mostly the Kagerous and Yuugumos; Matsus and Tachibanas, together with older DDs like Kamikaze-class were escorts and patrol ships along supply lines or in rear areas, while the Akizukis were mostly built as escorts for actual combat ships. That's why the ships had a few knots less in maximum speed (you don't need 35 knots or more to escort ships that usually don't go over 32 knots), a halved torpedo load compared to Kagerous and Yuugumos and their main gun armament were all Type 98 10 cm AA guns. And while the 10 cm HA gun in Kancolle is just as useful as the 12.7 cm gun against surface targets, IRL, the 10 cm guns were dedicated AA guns, with only anti-air ammunition available to them.