Placing a 1949 Daring in the First World War turns the scale comparison into a combat thought experiment. Radar would let the ship fight at night, while her 34-knot speed would allow her to outrun many older warships. Ten torpedoes and six fast-firing 4.5-inch guns would give one destroyer striking power unavailable to its earlier counterparts. The imagined Daring flotilla at Jutland is explicitly counterfactual and illustrates the pace of technological change.
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What a Daring could do in a Jutland-era fleet
Radar, 34-knot speed, ten torpedoes, and six fast-firing 4.5-inch guns underpin a deliberately counterfactual comparison with the First World War High Seas Fleet.