Quote Originally Posted by Strike For The South View Post
Germany could never have invaded the UK while the RN still floated.

There best bet was someone toppling Stalin early in Barbarossa and making peace.
The RAF and the Fleet Air Arm were required to keep the RN afloat, though. The battles in the Pacific theatre showed what happened when the RN's superior battleships and battlecruisers lacked air support. They went down fighting, to be sure, but they still went down.