Comparable Destroyers to the Fletcher class

The Japanese Fubuki and follow-on classes were really badly let down by having one of the worst main armament weapons of any destroyers during the war. The Japanese alone were using bagged charges, not case ones. That meant that their destroyer guns had a fixed loading position, so even if they in latter installations could elevate to 70 degrees, their ROF was on the order of 5 to 9 rounds a minute depending on whether they were doing AA or surface fire as they had to move to the loading elevation each time to reload.
When you add in that they had one of the worst AA rounds of any navy to top that off, Japanese destroyers were really torpedo boats with some guns that could add a bit punch to the torpedoes.

 

What do I know, I was never on board a Fletcher class, but I always thought they were the prettiest thing afloat at the time. Heck, I even built the Tamiya plastic model kit and have made some improvements on it but I am very pleased as to how it turned out today. . And just for the record, I spent some time on a Gearing class destroyer back in 1968.