In the decisive battle between the German Navy and the British Navy, the German Navy's two aircraft carriers, the Vanguard and the Glorious, took part. The two carriers launched carrier-based aircraft to strike the British Navy's Capital Ships. The carrier-based aircraft dropped torpedoes directly, inflicting heavy losses on the British Navy.
However, constrained by technological limitations, carrier-based aircraft could currently carry only light torpedoes. Yet the British Navy's early dreadnoughts had such weak defenses that they could not withstand even light torpedoes head-on.
Of course, the decisive factor in the German Navy's defeat of the British Navy had still been its Battleships and Battlecruisers. But the formidable power unleashed by the combination of aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft had nonetheless already drawn widespread attention.
Because of Oscar, Germany had become the first nation in the world to build aircraft carriers and employ carrier-based aircraft. In this field, it stood completely at the forefront of the world. Even so, the German Navy continued to deepen its development in this area. After all, its current aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft still fell far short of the standards and requirements Oscar had proposed.
After the Pioneer-class aircraft carriers, the German Navy had a total of four aircraft carriers under construction. These four carriers had far greater displacement than the Pioneer class, with full-load displacement exceeding 26,000 tons. This gave them larger flight decks and larger hangars, allowing them to carry more combat aircraft. This class of aircraft carrier was named the Kaiser Wilhelm class. The lead ship was named the Wilhelm the Great, while the other three were named the Frederick III, the Wilhelm II, and the Wilhelm III.
The Wilhelm the Great could carry sixty-four combat aircraft: eighteen fighters, twenty-four bombers, and twenty-four Torpedo Bombers. The previous Pioneer-class aircraft carriers had carried