The Tátra class consisted of six destroyers built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy shortly before the First World War.

By the last years of the first decade of the 20th century, Admiral Graf Rudolf Montecuccoli, head of the Austro-Hungarian Navy (German: kaiserliche und königliche Kriegsmarine), recognized that the latest Huszár-class destroyers were already obsolete in comparison to larger and faster foreign destroyers.

The turbines, designed to produce 20,500 shaft horsepower (15,300 kW), were intended to give the ships a speed of 32.5 knots (60.2 km/h; 37.4 mph).

[5] The main armament of the Tátra-class destroyers consisted of two 50-caliber Škoda Works 10-centimeter (3.9 in) K11 guns, one each fore and aft of the superstructure in single mounts.

Their secondary armament consisted of six 45-caliber 66-millimeter (2.6 in) K09 TAG (German: Torpedoboot-Abwehr Geschütz (anti-torpedo boat guns)).