A 200,000-ton destroyer allowance would reserve 16 percent, or 32,000 tons, for larger leaders. That permits seventeen ships at the 1,850-ton ceiling, with an eighteenth requiring weight savings. British and American designers could try to fit that extra ship inside the total. For the Royal Navy, the resulting allowance could support nine-ship Tribal flotillas in place of the historical eight-ship groups.
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Larger allowances and nine-ship Tribal flotillas
The proposed destroyer allowance could support eighteen leaders through weight adjustments and let Britain organize nine-ship Tribal flotillas.