Board Thread:Event Community Discussion/@comment-28069733-20170521154728/@comment-26574811-20170529070728

Kenji135 wrote: This, of course, is under the assumption that future American DE would be considered equivalent to Kaiboukan in terms of game mechanic. Won't happen.

American DEs:

1.can equip torps

2. has no reason to share Kaiboukan's low repair time as DEs are much bigger.

3. are used for a role similar to Japanese Matsu-class, and the Matsu will be DD according to Japanese definition.

4. Japanese wiki (where Tanaka gets most of his data from) defines DE as a kind of DD.

So those DEs will most definitely be DDs, perhaps with some special traits.