Queen Elizabeth alternatives: 28 knots and heavier guns

What design alternatives will the Queen Elizabeth-class discussion cover?

The proposals included 28 knots and twelve guns in triple turrets, with a 16.5-inch weapon considered before the Admiralty rejected too many simultaneous changes.

Design studies could have produced a 28-knot Queen Elizabeth class with twelve 15-inch guns in triple turrets. Because the Admiralty also considered a 16.5-inch gun, there was a more radical possibility of twelve such weapons, although simultaneous changes to speed, turrets, and guns were judged too risky. A large British force of 16.5-inch-gunned capital ships might have pushed the Washington treaty ceiling above the historical 16-inch limit. The historical ships' 15-inch batteries already delivered conspicuously destructive results at Jutland, so the unrealized alternatives were not required to make the class formidable.