Talk:Ship/@comment-175.156.131.252-20150327044114/@comment-26137911-20150327085832

The KM incarnations of Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were borderline battlecruiser and fast battleship, and people debate whether they were one or the other. Naval hull classifications aren't entirely objective and aren't consistent -- they vary by country and era and can be politically determined.

I mean, everytime someone posts a picture of the JMSDF ships Ise and Hyuga, everyone's got the same tired wisecrack about destroyers in between quote marks. Philippines calls Frigates what other countries would call Corvettes, Iran calls Destroyers what other countries call Frigates, and America called Frigates what other countries would have called Destroyers (at the time -- not anymore after we retired them and gave them away to those other countries, who conveniently use *our* scale now)