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Scharnhorst and Gneisanau were under-gunned, but the 11-inch guns were always meant to be a stopgap. The intention was that they'd be replaced with 3 twin 15-inch gun turrets. That's a small number of guns for a battleship, but given their relatively small size compared to other battleships of the era it would still be pretty good firepower.

The up-gunning never happened because the war went rather worse than planned for Germany, to say the least.