A large cruiser is more plausible than an immediate battleship revival

Is the battleship likely to return through a future government warship programme?

A large cruiser is more likely to return first; a ship called a battleship remains possible only over a longer horizon.

A revived cruiser is the nearer-term possibility. Such a ship might recover some battleship-like scale or functions without immediately restoring the old designation. A battleship remains possible over a longer horizon, but its development would take time. The distinction separates the return of large surface combatants from the return of the historical battleship as a category.