The alternative settlement leaves the American and British core fleets near numerical parity while giving them different fast-wing structures. The United States has eighteen battleships and five maximum-size 40,000-ton Lexington-class battlecruisers. Britain has eighteen battleships and six smaller battlecruisers, while separate Dominion allocations expand the empire-wide total without putting every hull directly into the Royal Navy. A few French battlecruisers could also become prestige flagships, adding status competition to the fleet arithmetic.
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Different fast wings could preserve Anglo-American parity
The proposed treaty would leave Britain and the United States with eighteen battleships each, while their fast wings differ in ship size, numbers, and the place of Dominion forces.