Thomas1195
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How would the RN and RAF look like if the ww2 was delayed to 1944?
Of course the Revenge BBs would have been replaced, the Hood would have been modernized and the Lion BBs would have been commissioned. Next, aircraft carriers like Malta would have been completed. But do you think that RN would go on with super-heavy battleships after Lion, which may not be like Yamato, but a modernized I3 class with slightly weaker firepower but better fire control and radar than Yamato (a bigger version of G3 in 1920 with similar speed of over 30 knots, superior armour that can withstand 18 inch gun shells and superior firepower). This kind of battleship would have tore Bismarck apart. Or would they choose to build super carriers? Or both if Britain could rebuild its naval engineering capacity on time (in 1940-1942)
The airforce would have been modernized too, with new aircrafts like Spitfire, Mosquito, Lancaster or Beaufighter, and FAA would have surely got better aircrafts. And it would be likely that Britain (and Germany of course) might have further lead other nations (maybe except for the US) in jet and other electronics like radar.
But overall they would have been much much stronger militarily, technologically with stronger industrial capacity at least in absolute term in 1944.
Btw, Germany would still continue plan Z if they could manage to avoid bankruptcy.
Of course the Revenge BBs would have been replaced, the Hood would have been modernized and the Lion BBs would have been commissioned. Next, aircraft carriers like Malta would have been completed. But do you think that RN would go on with super-heavy battleships after Lion, which may not be like Yamato, but a modernized I3 class with slightly weaker firepower but better fire control and radar than Yamato (a bigger version of G3 in 1920 with similar speed of over 30 knots, superior armour that can withstand 18 inch gun shells and superior firepower). This kind of battleship would have tore Bismarck apart. Or would they choose to build super carriers? Or both if Britain could rebuild its naval engineering capacity on time (in 1940-1942)
The airforce would have been modernized too, with new aircrafts like Spitfire, Mosquito, Lancaster or Beaufighter, and FAA would have surely got better aircrafts. And it would be likely that Britain (and Germany of course) might have further lead other nations (maybe except for the US) in jet and other electronics like radar.
But overall they would have been much much stronger militarily, technologically with stronger industrial capacity at least in absolute term in 1944.
Btw, Germany would still continue plan Z if they could manage to avoid bankruptcy.
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