Destroyer allocation built around complete flotillas

With 200,000 tons, Britain and the United States could allocate sixteen percent to sixteen 2,000-ton leaders. The remainder supports either 105 1,600-ton destroyers or 112 1,500-ton ships, enough for thirteen or fourteen organized flotillas. Japan's 140,000-ton allocation similarly yields eleven leaders and roughly seventy-four to seventy-nine destroyers. Translating tonnage into leaders, ships, and complete formations tests whether a treaty ceiling can produce an operational fleet rather than an impressive abstract total.