A proposed Admiral-class carrier conversion would probably receive an end-to-end flight deck, following the direction represented by Eagle and Hermes rather than the small forward flying-off decks fitted to Courageous, Glorious, and Furious. Those short decks could launch fighters quickly for fleet defence but interfered with operating a carrier's main strike group. An Admiral hull's size would support a larger hangar and more strike aircraft. That capacity would fit the Royal Navy's early and persistent interest in torpedo bombers. The counterfactual connects battlecruiser construction directly to the emergence of a carrier designed around offensive air power rather than fighter launch alone.
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An Admiral-class conversion points toward the strike carrier
A converted Admiral-class hull would probably have used a full-length flight deck and large hangar to support the Royal Navy's developing strike-carrier role.