The losses in the Norwegian Campaign left only a handful of undamaged heavy ships available for the planned, but never executed, invasion of the United Kingdom (Operation Sea Lion) in the summer of 1940.
As perdas na campaña norueguesa fixeron que só uns poucos barcos pesados estivesen preparados para actuaren na planeada, aínda que nunca levada a cabo, invasión de Gran Bretaña, a chamada Unternehmen Seelöwe (Operación León Mariño), no verán de 1940.