How Western navies might answer Stalingrad

The video considers both an aviation-led answer and a return to heavy surface escorts. Britain might rely on carriers and Blackburn Buccaneer strike aircraft. A highly visible Stalingrad visit to London or New York could sharpen political demands for a surface response. The United States could reactivate the Alaska class as a working analogue, learn how such a ship fits into a formation, and then use an Alaska or Iowa as a short-term heavy carrier escort. The long-term answer raises a missile-design problem because weapons intended to defeat heavily protected surface ships would have to account for armour.