Talk:List of coastal defense ships by upgraded maximum stats/@comment-28489448-20170507081605/@comment-25861293-20170513065715

They're useless for combat, but you could use them as cheap escorts by giving them a 10cmHA+AAFD, a type 13 air radar kai, and a sonar. That would allow them to do AACI and a preemptive ASW attack at the cost of being at all usable for anything related to surface combat.

Several DDs (or at least Asashimo) would serve better in this role, however.