The slow pace and repeated alteration of the Admiral-class design suggest that these ships were intended to shape the postwar balance rather than answer an urgent German threat. British planners also considered how captured German ships or technical knowledge might improve American and Japanese programs. Fast British capital ships cruising abroad could imply that an even stronger battle fleet remained at home. Hood or a G3 would display speed and power overseas, while the N3 concept supplied the imagined heavier counterpart. The scheme used visible ships to unsettle rivals' procurement assumptions and set the terms of a technology competition without reopening a mass-production race.
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Hood, G3, and N3 as a global deterrent system
Fast capital ships shown abroad were meant to imply an even stronger battle fleet at home, challenging American and Japanese plans without another mass-production race.