Talk:Samuel B. Roberts/@comment-34973617-20180424022153/@comment-2606:A000:1010:C1C7:0:84DB:602F:B6F0-20180424074507

The coastal defense ships like Etorofu are not comperable to what the USN called Destroyer Escorts. SBR is almost twice the tonnage with fully fledged DP guns linked to an acutal fire control system, torpedo tubes, and was five knots faster. She's larger then most inter-war destroyer and only slightly less capable.

The Japanese equivlent would be the Matsu family of destroyers, notice the name, the Japanese did considered them destroyers though second rate ones intended for escort. The USN thought similiarly regarding destroyer escorts.