Ten years of warning would also change Britain's industrial capacity. Shipyards that failed during the 1930s would instead receive a steady stream of repairs and Renown-style modernizations. Preserving those facilities would make later mobilization larger and less dependent on rebuilding lost capacity. With the war date known, Britain could abandon fourteen-inch guns for the King George V class and choose sixteen-inch, or at least fifteen-inch, armament.
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Early warning preserves shipyards and heavier battleship choices
A decade of certain warning would keep interwar yards busy with refits and let Britain reject the fourteen-inch King George V design for heavier guns.