Dunkirk and Strasbourg are remembered not only for the fact that they became the first French capital ships built after the First World War. They are rightfully considered the first-born of a new generation of combat ships - a generation of high-speed battleships that became a symbol of sea power in the 30s and 40s. Thus, in the history of military shipbuilding they can claim the same place of honor as the English Dreadnought, built after the Russian-Japanese War. After all, it was the laying of “Dunkirk” that stimulated a new round of the naval arms race, of course, not as large-scale as before the First World War, but which gave rise to the emergence of super-battleships of hitherto unimaginable size and power: ships of the types “Bismarck”, “Litgorio”, “Iowa”, “ Yamato", "Richelieu" and others.