The closing counterfactual compares six completed Neptunes with three Tiger-class and three Minotaur-class cruisers. A second version adds four completed Malta-class carriers instead of the carrier-modernisation choices represented by Victorious. The question widens from one cruiser design to the shape of the postwar fleet and asks whether other navies would respond. Submarine bargaining, the 1956 Suez crisis, and the financial damage from its handling are possible constraints on the outcome. The scenario is deliberately open and asks how those ships might have altered the Royal Navy and wider world.
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Would six completed Neptunes change the Royal Navy?
The closing thought experiment asks how the Royal Navy and wider naval balance might differ if six Neptune-class cruisers had been completed instead of three Tigers and three Minotaurs.