How to rebuild modern US and Royal Navy capacity

How would you build up the modern US Navy and Royal Navy if funds allowed?

Expand existing frigate and auxiliary programs, fill known fleet gaps, and consider new classes after the current programs are properly supported.

A proposed expansion would begin by filling existing fleet gaps, with more frigates and supply ships ordered through programs already under way. New classes would follow after those programs had received the resources they needed. Type 45 illustrates the argument for retaining power-generation margin and planned weapon capacity during construction. Clarke attributes its later power problems to omitted capacity that designers had already considered, arguing that the subsequent remedy was easier to identify because it had been anticipated. He also recalls a larger proposed weapons fit with 32 Mark 41 cells and about 64 Sylver cells. These examples support completing a ship's intended capabilities before cost reductions create further work later in its life.