Plutón and Furor sit between torpedo boats and the mature torpedo-boat destroyer. Their quick-firing fourteen-pounder and six-pounder guns gave them the ability to protect larger ships against attacking torpedo craft, while two torpedo tubes preserved an offensive role. Those capabilities support the contemporary destroyer designation, although their design remained close to the torpedo-boat ancestry of the type. They were a step along the development line rather than fully developed destroyers in the later sense.
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Were Plutón and Furor true torpedo-boat destroyers?
The armament of Plutón and Furor supported escort and anti-torpedo-boat work, while their design remained an intermediate step toward the mature destroyer.