A viewer's calculation reduces the Anglo-German Naval Agreement to a static five-capital-ship fleet. Plan Z and Germany's lack of intent to remain indefinitely within that snapshot produce a different figure. The projected force reached ten battleships, with O-class battlecruisers counted within the capital-ship figures and six H-class battleships planned. Completion of every hull remained uncertain, but the long-range force plan exceeded the headline treaty ratio if war had not intervened. Agreement ratios, approved designs, laid-down hulls, and projected fleet structure therefore require separate accounting.
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Why Plan Z exceeded a static treaty-ratio fleet
Germany's projected force included a much larger capital-ship program than a simple five-ship reading of the Anglo-German Naval Agreement suggests.