Talk:Prototype 61cm Sextuple (Oxygen) Torpedo Mount/@comment-26874340-20160527175433/@comment-24332640-20160702220800

"Akizuki class was an escort destroyer"

I know that was an old comment but sometimes you see something so stupid you have to respond, even if it's old.

Akizuki-class were most certainly not escort destroyers. In fact, they were the largest mass-produced destroyers in the whole IJN. (Shimakaze was bigger I believe but they only made one of her)  Larger than Kagerou or Yuugumo classes which were the premier surface combat DDs at that time.

Akizuki-class didn't emphasize torpedos (unusual for IJN destroyers for sure) so they were only given a single quad mount (instead of the two quad mounts on Kagerou/Yuugumo classes), but they were the same class of torpedo as any other IJN destroyer. And in exchange for losing one torpedo mount they had more guns.

It's not, in fact, crazy that if they wanted to increase torpedo armanent for the super Akizuki class they would stick to the single mount but just add some more tubes. They still wouldn't be torpedo-centric DDs but it's a compromise.

Ultimately the torpedo strength of a ship ought to be based on the total number of tubes, not the number of tubes per mount. But the KC equipment system is kind of funky so tubes per mount gets all the emphasis...