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Turning the R class into Renowns and reusing their turrets

Converting the R-class program into seven Renown-like ships would leave enough ordered twin turrets to accelerate several Hood-type capital ships.

Question

What follows if the R-class program is rebuilt as seven Renown-type battlecruisers?

Short answer

It creates seven fast ships and leaves about thirteen twin turrets available to speed construction of several Hood-like successors.

Notes

The proposal replaces the completed R-class battleships with Renown or Repulse-type ships. The industrial consequences extend beyond the changed hulls. Of thirty-two ordered twin turrets, only twenty-one would be used by seven three-turret ships, leaving roughly thirteen mountings. Those already funded guns and turrets could accelerate as many as three Hood-like follow-on ships or support other capital-ship projects.