Board Thread:Event Community Discussion/@comment-25730832-20170511175819/@comment-1637496-20170513172449

Vcharng wrote: So we never said that the Japanese subs have the same role as their American counterpart, did we? However, these DE supporters are saying that DE and Kaiboukan have the same role as their reason to support the DE classification, which is incorrect. Carriers, BBs and SSs are defined not by their role, so there's no such a problem. Ahem, how would you functionally distinguish between DE and PF? Even the torpedo tubes are more a legacy than a piece of equipment regularly used in their wartime activites; the short hulled DEs didn't have them to begin with, which would make them PFs if we use this secondary anti-ship capability as the discriminant factor. I'm much more inclined to distinguish distinguish them on genetic lines.

On the matter of DE supporters, in my opinion they, deliberately or accidentally, ignore the PF designation and its historical usage.