Talk:Kongou/@comment-24896437-20140511141838/@comment-139.0.112.229-20140520072635

Equipping Kongou with AA and sanshiki is a Japanese fan in-joke because her modern-day reincarnation the DDG-173 JDS Kongou is an Aegis destroyer optimized for air defense (since Japan has a pacifist constitution she can't be armed for attack purpose other than anti-ship unlike "normal" Aegis ships). She's also depicted as wanting more AA capability in the official manga.