Fulmar fighter direction and Swordfish radar support a joint carrier force

Swordfish carried useful radar for locating surface formations, with their Indian Ocean employment providing the comparison. In the imagined South China Sea battle, a Swordfish could maintain contact with the Japanese fleet and guide an American dawn strike. Fulmars could also help defend the American carriers through communication with their own ships. American fighters might form around the British aircraft to take advantage of that direction. These are proposed uses of existing capabilities in a battle that did not occur.