A 343-ship escort force could give each US carrier roughly eight escorts

How many escorts would US carrier groups receive from this enlarged Cold War inventory?

The roughly 343-ship escort force could provide about eight escorts to each of twelve to fifteen carrier groups.

The proposed class totals produce roughly 343 escorts, including a large number of antisubmarine vessels. For a navy with roughly twelve to fifteen carriers, the panel offers an approximate allocation of eight escorts to each carrier group. That is a rough allocation estimate; dividing the entire inventory by the carrier count does not produce eight. No deployment or maintenance assumptions are supplied for that estimate.