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How each navy spends an 80,000-ton Space Battleship allowance

An 80,000-ton allowance for each navy produces historical-looking replica fleets to accompany Yamato, with their space-combat capabilities left undefined.

Question

In a Space Battleship Yamato scenario where Japan gets Yamato and every other navy gets 80,000 tons, what historical ships would each fleet send?

Short answer

Two King George Vs for Britain, Scharnhorst and Bismarck for Germany, two Littorios for Italy, Spain's Españas and Canarias cruisers, three Dunkerques for France, Iowa and North Carolina for the United States, and three Ganguts for Russia.

Notes

The fictional scenario gives Japan Yamato and allows each other navy 80,000 tons of replicas to accompany her journey to Iscandar. Britain receives two King George V-class battleships, Germany Scharnhorst and Bismarck, and Italy two Littorios. Spain uses the allowance for its España-class battleships and both Canarias-class cruisers, while France settles on three Dunkerques. The United States pairs an Iowa with a North Carolina, and Russia sends three Ganguts. Historical standard displacements provide the rough budget for these choices. The Ganguts would be badly outclassed as conventional surface warships in this company, but the scenario leaves their capabilities as fictional space battleships undefined.