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Tier IX · Destroyer · France
Rating B+ (Above average within its tier and class · overall score 60) · Hybrid destroyer
Hybrid destroyer, suited to fire pressure, torpedo ambush. It is especially strong against cruisers (HE deals a same-tier cruiser's HP in about 3 min on paper · torpedoes supply 25% of it). A full torpedo spread can deal up to 44,604 (all launchers combined). Torpedo DPM is 41% higher than average. Its HE main battery DPM of 37,015 is 6% above the same-tier destroyer average. At 34.1 kn it is slow, so commit to a flank early.
Key stats
- HP: 19,942
- Top speed: 34.06 kn
- Surface detectability: 6.3 km
- Main battery: 127 mm 3X2 · reload 3.9 s · range 8.94 km
A variant of the first post-war destroyer project of the French Navy with new dual-purpose 127 mm guns. The need for a multipurpose main battery for destroyers became evident during World War II; however, attempts to create a suitable artillery system in France in the late 1930s were never embodied in metal. It was only in 1948, based on pre-war designs, that a 127 mm twin-gun mount was created and standardized with U.S. analogs in terms of munitions.