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If Mogador set the London destroyer-leader limit

A treaty-limit counterfactual shows how several hundred extra tons could change the weapons and role of interwar destroyers.

Question

What if the Mogador class had established the destroyer tonnage limits at the London Naval Treaty?

Short answer

A roughly 2,500-ton leader limit would likely pull ordinary destroyers upward and give ships such as the Tribal class room for heavier torpedo and dual-purpose gun armament.

Notes

A Mogador-sized ceiling could define destroyer leaders around 2,500 tons and raise the ordinary destroyer allowance toward 2,000 tons. On a Tribal-class design, the extra displacement could support more torpedo tubes and possibly the desired 4.5-inch dual-purpose battery, making the whole Royal Navy destroyer lineage from 1930 onward markedly more capable.