USS The Sullivans is a roughly 2,050-ton standard design built after the treaty era. She shows the size of a destroyer shaped by wartime requirements rather than earlier paper limits. The comparison brackets the 1,300- to 1,600-ton interwar ships against a post-treaty war design. A rejected wish for a 15,000- to 18,000-ton cruiser carrying 9.2-inch guns then marks the outer boundary of a counterfactual intended to remain close to history.
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USS The Sullivans shows the post-treaty scale
At roughly 2,050 tons standard, USS The Sullivans shows the scale reached when wartime requirements displaced interwar treaty limits.