Talk:Isokaze/@comment-26293410-20180323155632/@comment-33100091-20180326020850

That a foreign ship will eventually out 'duck' the akizuki class sisters is pretty much guaranteed given IJN AA wasn't exactly very good even for ships dedicated in that role within their fleet.

the problem is that while they had a decent 10cm high angle dual purpose gun that can compete with other dual purpose gun for AA, their primary AA gun clusters are made of 25mm autocannons and these were historically... not a very good AA overall compared to the clusters of say 40mm Bofors (which are excellent AA) that other nations used that had more effective range and punch.

add the VT shells into the mix, and well yeah... historically IJN's AA overall wasn't their strong suit.

however, there's probably no foreign DD that is going to be a better torpedo boat than IJN DD, so they probably will run with that stick.