Originally Posted by Not_a_boffin
The point is that you can buy additional a/c, you can deploy them differently, you can change the personnel mix - it is just a question of changing funding assumptions. What you can't do, is retroactively change the capacity of a major capital asset with a life of 50 years because you built it too small in the first place. What you also shouldn't do is allow one service to buy equipment that will prevent it being interoperable with the others, should the need arise.....
All the more reason for having a larger ship, with more space on deck and in the hangar.