What If...?

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Flugzeugträger = Aircraft Carrier
Schlachtschiff = Battleship
Panzerschiff = Pocket Battleship (not litterally)
With the given technology in 1942 (remove the Radar-equipment and the guided TVb-Zaunkönig-II torpedoes) I´m pretty sure that type XXI could rule the Atlantic. However, it is silly to seriously think the germans could field such an advanced boat that early. They were not rushed into action (unlike the jets) and thus only a few smaller type XXIII saw action at the end of ww2.
 
I hate to break the news but there was little chance that Graf Zepplin could ever operate aircraft. She was the first ever carrier designed by the Germans and suffered accordingly. She would have gone to sea with a permament 15 degree list, making it more or less impossible to operate aircraft. The Germans also lacked everything to do with carriers, doctrine, experienced pilots, experienced captains. Basically she would have had no chance. Surely she would have been bombed whilst still in port anyway? They can't build her in Gdansk in 1940.

The 12 Me109T carried by Graf wouldn't stand up well against the 100+ Fulmars and Skuas of the RN home fleet.
 

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