Original sentence: By 1941, most battleships had transitioned to the Vought OS2U and cruisers were expected to replace their aging SOCs with the third generation SOC3.However, the SOC3 suffered from a weak engine and plans to adopt it as a replacement were scrapped
Edited sentence: By 1941, most battleships had transitioned to the Vought OS2U and cruisers were expected to replace their aging SOCs with the third generation SO3C Seamew.However, the SO3C suffered from a weak engine and plans to adopt it as a replacement were scrapped