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1. We have our aircraft carrier.
2. We have two heavy cruisers (Erasmo and Iwakuma, if you were wondering)
3. We have two destroyers, one that could be retrofit to cruiser status (Beavan and Saunders)
4. We have a bevy of deadly fast attack craft and stealthy subs, in our well-armed pen.
5. We have two hulls nearing completion in the dry docks of Tacoma. Naval secrecy has yet to reveal if they are of the carrier, battleship or cruiser class. Expect to see their shakedown sailings earlier rather than later.
Alfred Thayer Mahan and Admiral Raymond Spruance would be quite pleased.
BTW, admirals from Horatio Nelson to David Farragut to George Dewey would argue that when you have ships of the line such as Paxton and Hultzen completed, you don't have the luxury of waiting to iron out every kink before you send them off into harm's way. First of all, you can't iron out every kink. They will have flaws, but their guns and armour are needed in battle now. Beyond that, such heavy vessels are designed to blast the enemy, not run coastal patrol in Puget Sound.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
moe