Talk:Ro.44 Seaplane Fighter/@comment-1421453-20160229181023

This item looks useless only when you think about putting it on a ship which can use artillery spotting. However, the other ships such as seaplane tenders, subs, hayasui can equip this instead of seaplane bombers.

You only sacrifice opening air strike of a seaplane bomber which can only kill a DD, for a guaranteed air power which won't get reduced when it got shot down such as zuiuns. It might be shottable by enemy fighters but still it has some use.

Also, putting this on Yamato class (or even Vittorio Veneto or Nagato class) with "2 guns, 1 seaplane and 1 Ro. 44 itself" can still make you enable artillery spotting with almost no firepower lose. You might lose some firepower on head-on though, but this doesn't effect Yamato class.

Combined with aircraft proficiency bonus, this might be a good equipment.