Skua strike counterfactual against Graf Spee

The discussion considers two unrealized carrier attacks: Ark Royal finding Graf Spee at sea or using Skuas for a dive-bombing strike at Montevideo. A successful attack at sea could have attached the aircraft's reputation to a victory comparable in public effect to the later hunt for Bismarck. That prominence might have attracted a better engine and further development, making the Skua more useful in 1941-42 before a replacement arrived. A strike in port would instead have combined a technically plausible precision attack with a serious breach of neutral territory. The scenario connects aircraft development and public reputation to the diplomatic risk Britain might have accepted rather than continuously guarding an interned German warship.