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Originally Posted by dragoon500ly
The big question is just how active the administration became when the Sino-Soviet war broke out, how many bills were laid down, but more importantly, how much of the vital electronics and weapons were ordered and placed in production. Even assuming the shipyards start working 24/7 shifts, and every available hard starts laying down hulls, no more than a dozen or destroyers/frigates would be completed within a year. Going by WW2 stats, it would take up to 2 years just to get to completing warships within 90 days, and these would be far simpler ships than today's high tech wonders.
It's an interesting discussion, but I'm afraid the Navy's would be able to maintain a high operational tempo for maybe 4-6 weeks before exhaustion and lack of munitions kick in.
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In a V2.2 timeline, you wouldn't even see that number. By 1995, most medium to small shipyards in the US had closed as the Pacific Rim took over building the majority of merchant vessels. This left only the primary Navy shipyards capable of building warships.
It takes 18 months to build a Burke, and even the new LCS classes are taking about 15 months to build. I do not think you would see more than 2 Burkes (one from Bath and one from Ingalls/Huntington), 2 Independence Class LCS sized vessels (Austel), and 4 Freedom Class LCS sized vessels (Marten/Marietta) being produced per year. This will be especially true if damaged ships are being repaired at the same time. The US was not in a position to mass produce ships after the "Clinton Peace Dividend" took effect.