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Today the Royal Navy's newest aircraft carrier, HMS Ark Royal, the third of the new Inflexible class, was launched to great fanfare in Southampton.
Meanwhile in America, the US Navy just commissioned USS Antietam, the largest aircraft carrier built for the US Navy since the WW2-era Midway class.
Antietam is supposed to mark the US Navy's return to large carriers after the decommissioning of the last Midway class carriers in the early 1990s. Looking at the disparity between the US Navy and Royal Navy today, it's hard to believe that at the end of World War 2, the two navies had reached parity in size and strength. Would it be possible to create a scenario where the two situations were reversed?