Italian infrastructure and German design complexity

What were the principal Axis problems in expanding ship production?

Italy is associated with insufficient construction infrastructure, while Germany faces organizational difficulties and pressure for increasingly complicated designs.

Italy's problem is described as having the facilities needed to build ships and bring them into service. Germany also has to organize its shipbuilding, but continually moving technical goals creates an additional difficulty. Larger, more elaborate requirements make it hard to argue for a simpler design. Committees are criticized for encouraging each participant to add a feature that justifies their role. The resulting complexity can serve institutional self-preservation without making the overall production task easier.