The exchange notes that an Admiral Hipper-class cruiser displaced only a few thousand tons less than an Invincible-class battlecruiser. The older battlecruiser is preferred in a fight, and retained, modernized Invincibles would have posed a formidable threat to German heavy cruisers. The comparison judges ships by the combat power purchased with their displacement rather than by age or official classification alone.
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Modernized Invincibles could have hunted Hipper-class cruisers
A displacement comparison becomes a compact counterfactual about retaining and modernizing First World War battlecruisers to overpower German heavy cruisers.