Near the end of the battle, the British design is described as roughly 110,000 tons with a speed of 28 knots. Building such a ship with 1920s-era technology is a hypothetical consequence of removing treaties after the First World War. Only two countries are judged capable of undertaking it, although they are not named here. At that scale, the other navies would have little prospect of continuing to compete in the same ship category. The counterfactual connects an arms race's maximum ship size with the number of industrial powers able to remain in it.
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When a super-battleship arms race reaches an industrial cutoff
A roughly 110,000-ton design suggests that removing treaties could leave only the largest industrial powers able to continue a battleship competition.