Alright, so this ship right here is the RTK Kurokaze-Class, which stands for Raigeki Tokushuu Kichikukan—or in plain talk, a “Special Torpedo Attack Destroyer.” It’s one of those fast, lightweight killer ships that the Empire of Otsumokuri built back in the late 1930s up through the early 1940s. It wasn’t made during some big international war, but during their own bloody civil war that started from a coup in 1934 and dragged on until 1944. Basically, the empire was still figuring itself out after overthrowing the old Tsudamori regime, and the Republic faction kept trying to sneak supplies and ships through the sea to mess things up. So Otsumokuri said, “screw it, let’s make something small, fast, and mean,” and bam—Kurokaze-Class was born.

A total of 35 ships were made, all meant to boost the empire’s coastal and maritime security. The class was labeled with the code RTK-350, where RTK is the ship type (Special Torpedo Attack Destroyer), and 300 is the general ID for destroyers.

Now weapons-wise, this ship ain’t messing around. It’s got two torpedo batteries with 10 tubes each—so 20 torpedoes in total just waiting to be fired. On top of that, it’s packing two twin-mounted 100mm guns as its main artillery, plus 14 automatic 20mm AA guns for defense against aircraft. It’s designed to be quick on the attack and hard to catch, with torpedoes as its main punch and fast-reloading guns for support.

But of course, it’s not perfect. The ship’s got pretty limited communications equipment, which means it can only talk with other navy or civilian ships that are on the authorized list. If a ship isn’t registered and suddenly gets too close, this thing won’t be able to confirm friend or foe with regular radio. That’s why approaching ships are expected to flash a spotlight in Morse code as a way to say “hey we’re not hostile” or “oops, we didn’t know this was your turf.” If that doesn’t happen, well... the Kurokaze doesn’t wait. It’s trained to fire a warning shot first—and if there’s still no response, then they let the torpedoes do the talking. That’s just how these ships were ordered to operate back then.

But yeah, after sailing around for like 49 years, the Kurokaze-Class has finally been fully retired. Turns out, these ships just couldn't keep up with the modern navy tech and the newer international maritime laws. They were fast and deadly back in the day, but things change.

Out of all of them, around 16 ended up getting scrapped—literally torn apart for metal, turned into parts for newer ships… or, well, turned into steel pots and pans in someone’s kitchen. Yeah, really. The rest of them were kept around for a while as training ships for new Marine cadets, just to give them a taste of the old-school stuff. But even that couldn’t last forever—they finally pulled the plug on the whole class in 2004, 'cause by then the ships were just too old and worn out.

Now, the last surviving ones are just chilling in public naval museums in Kato and Shinari. Still looking cool, though—just not blowing stuff up anymore.

Anyway, I’m planning to upload this ship on SimplePlanes soon—so keep an eye out for it, and don’t forget to upvote if you like it, kay~ ^^