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Would earlier carrier construction give destroyers dual-purpose guns?

The final carrier-programme follow-up makes the projected destroyer armament conditional on the alternate history.

Question

Would the earlier carrier programme mean proper dual-purpose guns for Royal Navy destroyers?

Short answer

Yes in this scenario, with the explicit qualification that the later war may itself change.

Notes

The predicted benefit is a mature dual-purpose mounting available to many British destroyers by the Second World War. That answer depends on the preceding imagined programme of repeated carrier construction and assumes that a comparable war still occurs.