The counterfactual is not confined to Britain because the proposed Brown-Curtis partnership gives the US Navy access to the same plant. Yorktown-class carriers could potentially replace nine 600 psi boilers with six 850 psi units. Under treaty displacement limits, the saved weight and volume would not eliminate every compromise, but it could improve the armor and underwater protection American designers valued. This Anglo-American adoption also raises the performance baseline that Japanese and European designers must answer before the war.
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Yorktown and Enterprise under the same boiler revolution
An Anglo-American project could let Yorktown and Enterprise reduce boiler count and redirect treaty-limited displacement toward armor and torpedo protection.