Beatty's likely view of US fast battleships

How would Admiral Beatty have reacted to US fast battleships?

He would have been delighted by them, but frustrated that another navy had reached the fast-battleship solution before Britain.

Beatty would probably admire the American fast battleships while regretting that another navy had reached the combination first. Jellicoe reportedly preferred the faster British F-design concepts over the N3 approach because speed preserved global strategic mobility. Starting around 29 knots and then adding protection points toward a fast battleship rather than a conventional slow capital ship. The blurred boundary between battlecruisers and fast battleships explains why speed was central to the British design argument.