Project 1058 is introduced as a Soviet hybrid warship proposal from the 1930s. American designers helped develop it for Soviet use. A concern about topweight prompts the suggestion that substantial armour in the hull was intended to balance the design. The imagined German reaction belongs to a counterfactual about what would have happened had the ship been built.
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American designers and the Soviet Project 1058 hybrid
An unbuilt Soviet hybrid design involved American assistance and prompts a tentative explanation of how its topweight might have been balanced.