The closing prompt removes cumulative carrier limits in the first London Naval Treaty while retaining a 27,000-ton standard-displacement ceiling. The suggested outcomes are armoured Yorktown-like American carriers, earlier Taihō-like Japanese ships, and British designs carrying roughly 72 to 80 aircraft with somewhat more armour. The United States is assigned nearer 90 to 100 aircraft with less protection. The joke is that Japanese claims would promise American capacity and British armour at the same time. The scenario might even have reduced Japan's incentive to leave the treaty system. By leaving the thought experiment open, the video isolates how fleet-wide tonnage rules shaped national design compromises.
Notable Point · 50:52-53:24
Removing cumulative limits: a carrier counterfactual
The closing thought experiment asks how 27,000-ton British, American, and Japanese carriers might have developed if the 1930 treaty had removed cumulative tonnage limits.