Capital ships remained the premier killing systems in this account. Carrier aircraft gained a practical advantage through reach: they could attack before a gun-armed ship came within range, recover, and strike again. Interwar doctrine could therefore preserve battleship gunnery as a decisive weapon while developing carrier night-strike capability in parallel. Nelson and Rodney remained dangerous close-range weapons because aviation had not made a surface engagement irrelevant.
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Why carriers gained the practical advantage
Carriers gained their practical advantage through range and repeated strikes while battleships retained immense close-range destructive power.