A purpose-built naval Spitfire alternative

What fighter might the Royal Navy have used if Courageous and Glorious had survived?

A purpose-built gull-wing Supermarine naval fighter was a likely choice, with improved carrier landing features and heavier armament.

The proposed aircraft is described as a strengthened, gull-wing, Spitfire-like naval fighter rather than a simple conversion. Better landing visibility and a stronger airframe would address carrier-operating demands, while the Royal Navy's existing shipboard ammunition supply encouraged heavier machine guns or 20 mm cannon. Its combat potential remains plausible but necessarily speculative because the design was not completed. Wartime funding could also solve engineering and armament-integration problems that would have stalled a peacetime project.