Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20180328015558/@comment-28069733-20180331040655

Vcharng wrote:

Most definitely not, they already stated "Destroyer escorts" instead of "American Kaiboukans". It will be silly to have a category with a name "destroyer" being introduced as Kaiboukan (which is anything but a destroyer) And we still have the torpedo problem. Don't forget that while the shipcard icon reads as 海防, the actual English name on shipcard is "Escort", which essentially fits with "Destroyer Escort" and basically any vessel that is smaller than a DD during that time. 護衛 basically means "Escort", so the USN DE being put in the same category as the Kaiboukans is just as likely, regardless whether it's historically correct for them call the USN DEs a 海防艦 or not.