The historical North Carolina design is used as a comparison rather than a forecast. Later ships in this scenario might share some features while differing substantially in others. Continuous construction could encourage further experiments with all-forward or all-aft armament. Those routes remain possibilities, with no completed alternative design specified.
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Continuous building leaves more room to experiment with layouts
The counterfactual fleet need not reproduce historical battleship designs if successive classes keep testing different layouts.