Udaloy II points toward converging destroyer designs

Udaloy II replaces Silex with Sunburn missiles and exchanges the earlier single 100 mm guns for a twin 130 mm mounting like Sovremenny's. These changes bring the two destroyer lines closer together. The unresolved question is whether a continuing Soviet Union would have concentrated more investment in destroyers while retaining cruisers as command ships. Another possibility is that destroyers would have continued supplying the fleet's numbers while receiving less public attention.