You might be joking, but this scenario is probably not that far from what could happen. The funding allocated to the ship procurement programme is not enough to buy 15 modern high-end surface combatants (i.e., frigates) off the shelf today, let alone accounting for inflation and increasing costs of materials ten, fifteen, or twenty years down the road. So, we may wind up with five or so high-end ships with top of the line bells and whistles like anti-ballistic missile radars and missile systems or perhaps particle weaponry, and another five to ten low-end equipped only with the bare essentials. Or, if the economy takes a major nose dive, the entire programme could be jeopardized, and we might have to strike a deal for older American hand-me-downs to populate the so-called navy after next.