With a POD of 1945 (No World War 3 allowed), make either the Bundesmarine/Volksmarine a capital ship power to THIS DAY much like the modern Royal Navy and Marine Nationale.
Something like Russia with the Aurora, basically?The Turks present West Germany with the Battlecruiser Yavuz Sultan Selim in 1973 and the Bundesmarine recommission her as the Goeben to serve as ceremonial flagship and museum ship.
Would it be realistic for them to pick up one of the British CVLs converted for ASW ops in the North Sea at the back end of the 1960s/early 1970s then replace it with an Invincible in the late 1980s (ordered early enough and just about completed before the Wall comes down)?
The Soviets return something?
Didn't they discover that the Soviet crew had loaded some of the guns and then just left the shells in the breeches, to the point where they rusted into place?Well the British got that one ship back off them.
Granted, it was in such a state that I think they had to just straight scrap it, but they got it back.
Didn't they discover that the Soviet crew had loaded some of the guns and then just left the shells in the breeches, to the point where they rusted into place?
HMS Royal Sovereign I think?Yup. Just can not remember the name of the ship off the top of my head.
Is Europe ready for Germany to have a capital ship of any sort? That's the first question to ask before we can answer this question.
Didn't they discover that the Soviet crew had loaded some of the guns and then just left the shells in the breeches, to the point where they rusted into place?
The turrets had never been trained to the side during her Soviet service, and were stuck in place