How many large uncrewed escorts should a task group use?

How many 1,000- to 2,000-ton uncrewed vessels would a fleet need?

Roughly one or two per crewed ship, giving a typical eight-ship task group about 16 uncrewed escorts.

An eight-ship crewed group with two uncrewed vessels assigned to each ship would become a dispersed force of twenty-four hulls. The outer vessels could carry sensors and weapons, extend the perimeter, or act as powerful electronic decoys that draw missiles away from crewed ships. Their jammers might present a radar target large enough to attract incoming weapons toward expendable positions outside the formation. This makes numbers useful for presence, detection, deception, and survivability rather than merely adding remote launch cells.