What if Britain had kept both TSR-2 and four CVA-01 carriers?
Short answerThe answer argues that Britain would look like a much more robust global power, with the Falklands crisis likely altered and French carrier choices pulled into the comparison.
NotesFour CVA-01 carriers and TSR-2 would represent a major shift in Britain's postwar strategic weight. In this counterfactual, the Falklands War probably would not happen in the same way, and Britain would sit near the top of the non-superpower global powers. A Britain with four carriers could also make a one-carrier French posture harder to justify.