The G3 was a battlecruiser relative to the heavily protected N3, even though it would appear formidable beside historical treaty ships. Together they formed a fast and heavy design pair rather than two isolated curiosities. With roughly six or seven years between generations, continued construction could move Britain, the United States, and Japan several design cycles beyond First World War standards. Germany, still constrained by Versailles and deprived of heavy-gun production capacity, would face an even wider technological gap.
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Three capital-ship generations without the building holiday
Continuous development could produce three postwar generations of British, American, and Japanese capital ships before 1939.