The closing design lesson favours a slightly larger, workable hull over squeezing every theoretical advantage from a smaller one. Greater size could preserve a useful length-to-beam ratio while making room for the guns and layout the ship actually needed. The same practical standard applies to armament. A 150 mm gun would be impressive only if it could match the rate of fire and stability required in a destroyer fight, which contemporary technology could not deliver. The Type 1945 project becomes a broader engineering lesson about designing for combat conditions instead of isolated specifications.
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A slightly larger hull could have served the fighting requirement
Forcing heavy guns and fine hull lines into a small destroyer sacrificed the forward firepower and rate of fire needed in close combat.