While we're on topic:
I would say, that production of a battleship would take far more resources than production of some bombers able to take down that battleship. And try to repair it. Smaller ships can be repaired fast with little resources while big ships can make you bankrupt.
So while thinking logically numbers should be: |caps| < |fighters/bombers|
I wrote a really funny FL story, but it disappeared when the old forum went away. So, no lulz for you today.