Italian triple-turret practice prompts a Royal Navy counterfactual. Renown and Repulse might have carried three triple 15-inch mountings instead of three twins, gaining three guns at the cost of some weight, power, and money. The R class might likewise have used three triple turrets while leaving more machinery space to approach Queen Elizabeth-class speed. Existing twin-turret orders saved time and initial cost, but narrowed what the ships could become. These are analytical alternatives, not recovered Admiralty proposals.
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Triple-turret alternatives for Renown and the R class
British reuse of twin 15-inch turrets saved time and initial cost, while triple mountings might have given the Renown and Revenge classes more guns or machinery space.