The twelve completed Akizukis fell well short of the force envisaged in the programme. One construction example runs from February to December 1944, demonstrating that relatively rapid completion was possible. Another runs from August 1943 to January 1945. The contrasting intervals complicate any assumption that adopting the design alone would solve the production problem. Japan still needed a much larger and more dependable flow of these useful ships into service. The individual ship names are unclear in the captions, so these examples establish the quoted intervals without assigning uncertain identities.
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Akizuki construction times varied sharply
Contrasting construction intervals show that a useful design did not automatically produce a steady flow of replacements.