Dreadnought-class missile tubes and deterrent payload

Does the Dreadnought class's lower missile-tube count reduce Britain's deterrent capability?

Reducing the tubes from sixteen to twelve need not reduce the warhead load. The loading pattern proposed here is an inference from older public figures, while deployed numbers are deliberately ambiguous.

Vanguard has sixteen missile tubes, while Dreadnought has twelve. Tube count does not directly measure deployed warheads because a Trident missile can distribute several re-entry vehicles and decoys. In the illustrative arithmetic, sixteen missiles with three warheads each and twelve missiles with four each both carry 48 warheads. Extending that arithmetic to three boatloads produces 144 warheads, but the loading pattern is explicitly a supposition. Older public figures and the 2021 increase in the stockpile ceiling provide the basis for the estimate. Britain's subsequent deliberate ambiguity about deployed missiles and warheads prevents it from establishing an actual load.