The Mystery of Crabb and the Ordzhonikidze

[Lesforan]

Overestimating Soviet weapon technology was a staple for the military-industrial complex all during the Cold War.

The Sverdlovs were a boon to Western naval budgets.

After all, as has been pointed out, they were only light cruisers. Western naval establishments greeted them as a fleet of super-dreadnoughts.

All the better to overbuild expensive countermeasures.