Pearl Harbor losses and Iowa-Montana construction priority

Would losing more Standard-type battleships at Pearl Harbor bring the Iowa and Montana classes into service faster?

Probably. Heavier losses would raise the priority assigned to both later battleship programs.

Additional losses among the Standard-type battleships would increase the priority of the Iowa and Montana programs. The short response does not support a specific acceleration in months or hulls. The counterfactual shows how force depletion can reorder a wartime building program even when the underlying designs already exist.