Blücher survives the Norway campaign

If Blücher survived the Norwegian campaign badly damaged, how long would repairs take?

A return as a cruiser is rejected as impractical. Fleet suggests a carrier project under the label of reconstruction, but its feasibility remains disputed.

Shell hits, torpedoes, fire, and flooding would leave Blücher requiring a reconstruction so extensive that little of the original cruiser remained. Restoring her would compete with Germany's unfinished ships and other incomplete repairs. Fleet proposes using the damaged ship as cover for a carrier project based on the Admiral Hipper hull, preserving the nearly complete Seydlitz as a cruiser. If Blücher's condition ruled out reconstruction, his alternative would be a new hull described as a repair. Other participants challenge the practicality of rebuilding the damaged ship when an intact conversion candidate already existed. The exchange offers no repair schedule and reaches no agreement that the carrier scheme could succeed.