Thread:Admiral Mikado/@comment-25683568-20150630080920/@comment-24980562-20150702204500

Well, if we settle for "Kai Ni/Yon" in the end, then it should get changed to "Shiden Kai Ni" for the sake of standardisation, otherwise it should stay as "Shiden Kai-2". I prefer the latter, obviously. "Shiden" is the name of the plane, the "Kai-2" merely means it's an improved version.

I don't differentiate between ships and equipment, so both should share the same naming conventions.

Like I said, I rather have numbers spelt out as such instead of using their phonetic reading, even if they're written as kanji in the original name. Otherwise we'd have stuff like "Reppuu (Roku Maru Ichi Air Group)", and that would be just silly.

I also saw his argument regarding the possible implementation of "改２" in addition to 改二. I doubt that's ever going to happen, and even if it does I'd just transcribe both as "Kai-2". "二" literally means "2" after all.