HMS Glorious survives Norwegian Campaign?

What would have happened if HMS Glorious hadn't been sunk by Scharnhorst off Norway in 1940? A simple POD of Glorious having aircraft ready to defend herself or at least discover the location of Scharnhorst and avoid her or having Scharnhorst fail to locate Glorious should make this possible.
 
What would have happened if HMS Glorious hadn't been sunk by Scharnhorst off Norway in 1940? A simple POD of Glorious having aircraft ready to defend herself or at least discover the location of Scharnhorst and avoid her or having Scharnhorst fail to locate Glorious should make this possible.

The best way would be to incapacitate D'Oly-Hughes - then have the ship stay with the Ark Royal. Recon is done, the Twins are discovered, the Carriers will now have time to take evading action, and arrange a joint strike, perhaps to with aircraft from the Shetlands.

What happened OTL is more ASB, compared with what one would expect to happen, or could happen.
 
Evade hell launch a strike at the twins. Between them Ark Royal and Glorious have squadrons of Swordfish, Skuas, Sea Gladiators and a single squadron of RAF Hurricanes. Put FAA pilots in the Hurricanes for top cover with Gladiators as a reserve, and have the Swordfish and Skuas attack the twins. The Skuas will distract the AA gunners and wreck the twins superstructures and ranging equipment while the Swordfish attack with torpedos and should at the very least damage the Germans enough to force them to withdraw with the Home fleet in hot persuit. Land the strike rearm and refuel then do it again and hopefully finish them off.

This gives the RN a much needed victory and pulls the rug out from under the Gunnery specialists who claim no aircraft can sink a capital ship at sea.

The elimination of the twins would allow an extra fleet carrier to be assigned to the Med and come October to join the Illustrious for the strike at Taranto to knock out the Italian Battle fleet.
 
Yes, but the OP here may choose to keep this as an Atlantic/Med/ETO TL.

And perhaps might just be a little...different, in his conclusions.

Pretty much. Also wanted to keep this just a debate on near term effects rather than writing a whole timeline and going really deep. Personally I'm assuming Glorious would be lost at some other point later in the war. Probably either sunk by U-boat like Ark Royal and Courageous or by Japanese aircraft like Hermes if sent to the Pacific theater.
 
Evade hell launch a strike at the twins. Between them Ark Royal and Glorious have squadrons of Swordfish, Skuas, Sea Gladiators and a single squadron of RAF Hurricanes. Put FAA pilots in the Hurricanes for top cover with Gladiators as a reserve, and have the Swordfish and Skuas attack the twins. The Skuas will distract the AA gunners and wreck the twins superstructures and ranging equipment while the Swordfish attack with torpedos and should at the very least damage the Germans enough to force them to withdraw with the Home fleet in hot persuit. Land the strike rearm and refuel then do it again and hopefully finish them off.

This gives the RN a much needed victory and pulls the rug out from under the Gunnery specialists who claim no aircraft can sink a capital ship at sea.

The elimination of the twins would allow an extra fleet carrier to be assigned to the Med and come October to join the Illustrious for the strike at Taranto to knock out the Italian Battle fleet.

Would the weather at the time have allowed the Brits to launch a big strike?
 
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