The featured designs show the scale and variety of Soviet naval ambition, including a 1949 missile battlecruiser concept and increasingly cruiser-sized patrol ships. One Project 84 study reached about 19,400 tons fully loaded and combined 180-mm guns with a heavy secondary battery. The discussion then turns to the troubled history of the Pravda-class submarine, whose design emerged from an OGPU prison camp and required extensive correction. Coercing engineers further undermined an already unconventional project.
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Stalin's Ocean-Going Fleet and unrealized designs
A design-history book reveals Soviet missile battlecruisers, expanding patrol ships, and the flawed Pravda-class submarine program.