How HMS Malta might have reshaped the postwar carrier fleet

What might have happened if Britain had completed HMS Malta?

She might have become Ark Royal and served as a highly adaptable cornerstone of the Royal Navy after the war.

The proposed Malta-class carrier is compared with both the Audacious and Midway classes. Although a Midway could carry more aircraft, Malta's internal arrangement and armor scheme may have offered better scope for long-term adaptation to jets. A completed lead ship might therefore have taken the name Ark Royal and outlasted the Audacious-class ships into the 1970s or 1980s.