What follows if the R-class program is rebuilt as seven Renown-type battlecruisers?
Short answerIt creates seven fast ships and leaves about thirteen twin turrets available to speed construction of several Hood-like successors.
NotesThe 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.