Improved Chances ??

I know that with the sinking of the HMS Repulse and Prince of Wales, the emotional impact was felt in Singapore and around the world at that tenuous time in history. They were supposed to be supported by an aircraft carrier (HMS Imdomitable, if I remember correctly) that would have given them a fighting chance against all the aircraft that the Japanese threw at them, until they were overcome and sunk. My proposal is: If the Royal Navy had went on a crash program several years earlier and constructed several improved Hermes-class light carriers. Granted the RN would have been hard pressed to come up with the funds to have built those type of ships but, with the clouds of war on the horizon, the potential of that happening was there. Now with that said, could have at least two of those carriers made a difference to the outcome of those two capital ships or would have the RN managed to lose the lot of them on the same day??
 
I know that with the sinking of the HMS Repulse and Prince of Wales, the emotional impact was felt in Singapore and around the world at that tenuous time in history. They were supposed to be supported by an aircraft carrier (HMS Imdomitable, if I remember correctly) that would have given them a fighting chance against all the aircraft that the Japanese threw at them, until they were overcome and sunk. My proposal is: If the Royal Navy had went on a crash program several years earlier and constructed several improved Hermes-class light carriers. Granted the RN would have been hard pressed to come up with the funds to have built those type of ships but, with the clouds of war on the horizon, the potential of that happening was there. Now with that said, could have at least two of those carriers made a difference to the outcome of those two capital ships or would have the RN managed to lose the lot of them on the same day??

Actually there's a thread for that. :)

The Whale Has Wings

Is a timeline covering a WWII in which the Royal Navy regains control of the Fleet Air Arm and as consequences builds up its carrier strength and modernizes its planes. Worth reading all the way through but the alternate Force Z starts its battle on page 213!
 
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