The suggestion that fast battleships would end the battlecruiser receives an immediate objection. Fisher is expected to insist on retaining a clear speed advantage for his preferred type. The estimate rises towards thirty-five knots, while Foxo proposes a thirty-four-knot Hood. Expense and possible opposition elsewhere in the Royal Navy are acknowledged, but Fisher's influence is treated as sufficient to sustain the programme in this scenario.
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Would 28-knot battleships end British battlecruiser development?
The counterfactual shifts into a debate about whether Fisher would demand even faster battlecruisers.