Talk:Equipment/@comment-24370675-20140123223608/@comment-122.62.49.206-20140124011950

Chitose/Chiyoda are common drops anyway, you can just keep one copy of AV and another copy of CVL if you have space.

Its fun to have AV because of the pre-emptive torpedo->air strike->shelling->torpedo->night shelling combo. As long as you arent fighting elite/flagship class enemies they usually hold out okay

If you manage to grab the seiran seaplanes from last event they do decent damage (obviously need air cover if required)

For late game purposes you need to have at least one AV so you can bring 4 daihatsu transports (+20% expedition mission yield in total) because akitsumaru refit only has 3 slots. If you have two AV then you dont even have to bring akitsumaru along just to save more resources.