Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20180328015558/@comment-26574811-20180328234327

Neoasis wrote:

>同様に護衛駆逐艦と訳される艦種（Escort Destroyer, DDE）があるが、こちらは従来の駆逐艦を対潜艦に転用したものである. => I read this line differently; I take it to mean that the author is differentiating DDE from 護衛駆逐艦 by saying that "although the translation is the same, a DDE is just a ASW-specialised DD"; i.e. there is no special term for DDEs as they will just call them DDs in Japanese. No, it says : DDE is also translated as (Japanese), but DDE is different from DE (and the wiki entry is mainly talking about DE. It does NOT imply that (Japanese) cannot or should not refer to DDE.