In 1917 the Admiralty of the Austro-Hungarian Navy ordered a new type of destroyer, to lead destroyer and torpedo boat flottilas. This ship would had enough fuel storage to travel to the Mediterranean sea and thus large enough to carry the necessary fuel but would had been armed with strong armament as well. Displacement was set to 1600tons, to reduce design time the plans of existing ships (Tátra class) to be used but reality shown that construction time would not change dramatically if using modified existing designs or entire new ones.
Multiple design studies were presented to the admiralty but there seems to be only 3 designs survived in the archives:
An offer from the Hungarian firm Ganz-Danubius (Ganz és Társa-Danubius Villamossági-, Gép-, Waggon- és Hajógyár Rt. - Ganz and Partner-Danubius Electrical- Machine-, Wagon- and Shipbuilding Co.), Fiume/Budapest as follows:
Dimensions: 109,6 x 9,4 x 3m
Displacement: 1.615tons standard, 2.093tons full load
Engine Power: 41.000shp Danubius Steam Turbines, 2 shafts, 63km/h (34knots)
Armament: 2x1 15cm/50 Skoda K18 or 4x1 12cm/50 Skoda K15 guns, 2x AA guns, 2x2 53cm torpedo tubes
Another offer was from the MTK (Marinetechnische Komitee - Naval Technical Committee), Pola / Vienna as follows:
Dimensions: 110 x 9,5 x 2,9m
Displacement: 1.500tons standard, 1.900tons full load
Engine Power: 36.000shp AEGSteam Turbines, 2 shafts, 65km/h (35knots)
Armament: 6x1 10cm/50 Skoda K11 guns, no mention of AA guns though, 4x2 53cm torpedo tubes
And there was an offer even from the German shipyard of Blohm & Voss, Hamburg which was producing destroyers for the German Navy:
Dimensions: 96,9 x 9,35 x 2,8m
Displacement: 1.320tons standard, 1.780tons full load
Engine Power: 30.700shp 2 shafts, 65km/h (35knots)
Armament: 4x1 10,5cm/45 Ubts L/45 C/16 guns, no mention of AA guns though, 2x2,2x1 or 3x2 53cm torpedo tubes
Here you can see the MTK version which was more heavily armed with torpedoes but carry a lighter gun armament but on the hand it would been faster by a knot despite it's smaller machinery output which might suggest a better hull shape, but as I lack any drawings I made it similar to the 2.000ton version. The AA guns are the standard 66mm/45 Skoda K15 ones.
If built this destroyer class would surely be a serious threat to enemy shipping, having similar size that of the British Marksman, Faulknor, Parker and Shakespeare class Destroyer Leaders while the Italians only had 2 class of similar sized destroyers, the Carlo Mirabello and Aquila classes but not any of these classes would carry this heavy torpedo armament!
While these designs were well armed for their time, the admiralty did not pursue them as they were considered inadequately armed, war experience shown that 10cm guns were not powerful enough hence a choice of 15cm guns was set for the new destroyers of the 2000ton type.