The proposed program assigns three Project 21 battleships to each of four fleets. It also asks for cruisers, destroyer leaders, 182 destroyers, and roughly 240 submarines. No existing treaty power would accept the demand unchanged. The opening bid shows that battleship distribution and submarine numbers would be the hardest points to compromise.
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Stalin opens with twelve battleships and hundreds of submarines
The likely Soviet demand extrapolates later fleet plans into an opening bid no existing treaty power would accept unchanged.