I used to work with several Navy pukes and the question of wartime production would always lead to lots of arguments. It was the general opinion that the real bottleneck would not be the hulls but the electronics, weapons and munitions. Many of the defense contractors have only a couple of production facilities and you can see the logjam that a war will cause.
As for the hulls, you would often hear that the shipyards will simply to go 24/7 production, what was left unanswered was where the trained personnel were going to come from.
IMHO, one of the unanswered questions of any timeline is when the U.S. started to ramp up production of its armament industry to support its needs.
I do remember that the reason there were only TWO Ticos and TWO Burkes built per year throughout the 80's and 90's was that only 4 Aegis radars could be built in a year.
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