Poland aimed to achieve naval superiority through quality rather than quantity, and they designed large destroyers capable of countering light cruisers to this end. In the late 1930s, several projects for such ships were being considered in Gdynia. The Mogador-class destroyers were suitable for the purpose as they were comparable to light cruisers in certain parameters and outmatched them in others (for example, in speed). Had ships of this class been built in France, the destroyers that survived the war would have been reequipped in the 1950s and 1960s with Soviet air defense systems, radars, and torpedoes.