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I'm looking for advice here on just how capable Britain's carrier aviation arm could be by 1939.
I have five questions:
1: Could the Fleet Air Arm remain a seperate Royal Navy controlled force from the Royal Air Force in 1918 or be placed back into RN control before 1925?
2: How many aircraft carriers could Britain build and have in comission by 1940?
3: How large could these carriers be and how many aircraft could they carry?
4: Could these aircraft be comprable in performance to the land based aircraft of the RAF and the carrier based aircraft of other navies?
5: Could the RN develop the tactics to use these assets in the most effective way possible?
Above all how much of the above could be plausibly done with the economic, technical and political restrictions of the interwar period?