Postwar choices remained a debate over which ship type delivered the better return for the mission and budget. Aircraft-carrier success did not settle that question immediately after the Second World War. A renewed Soviet battleship or battlecruiser program could have prompted American and British counter-designs. In that scenario, improved assisted loading made a new British capital ship with an autoloading main battery increasingly plausible.
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Carrier success did not instantly end capital-ship development
The postwar question was comparative cost and strategic need, especially if the Soviet Union resumed capital-ship construction.