EVE General Discussion

[quote=Fredfredbug4]
Well I like that idea for a new Destroyers using them as sub hunters in WWII was considered wasteful for a few reasons.

1. They were armored to protect against shell fire which did nothing to stop a Torpedo.
2. They had large and powerful engines for their main purpose Torpedo Runs while Subs were slow on the surface and dead slow underwater.
3. They were well armed with a lot of surface firepower. Not a thing needed when a sub is an unarmored tube with an AA Gun.
4. They were larger then they needed to be to carry just Depth Charges, Sonar and Defensive Guns which is all they needed.
5. They required larger crews to run all these none sub hunting gear and engines.

You're an idiot... Destroyers were multiple role platforms. The main role of these ships were picket and defense. Defense from fast attack craft, aircraft and submarines. You can't do this role armed only with depth charges... Also what you were describing as a stripped down version of a destroyer are destroyer escorts and corvettes. Go re-read your history book where you got this information then burn it.

In other words Destroyers were expensive and their other roles such as Surface Fire, AA, Radar Picket and Torpedo Strikes / Torpedo Defense were needed elsewhere. Nothing says keep those Heavy Cruisers away from our Aircraft Carrier quite like a half dozen Destroyers. Reassigning a large ship like a Destroyer to puttle around chasing subs or hanging around merchant ships where in they could be sunk with a single torpedo and lose everything else that made them valuable as well as expensive was bad idea.