One suggested justification for Graf Zeppelin's six-inch guns is that they would make the carrier a better cruiser than Germany's cruisers and help it fight destroyers in the Barents Sea. That argument is challenged on operational grounds. A carrier facing an entire destroyer flotilla there would already be in a situation where several things had gone seriously wrong.
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Graf Zeppelin's guns and the destroyer-attack argument
A proposed justification for Graf Zeppelin's six-inch guns raises the question of how a carrier could become exposed to an entire destroyer flotilla.