Previous shipbuilding experience does not guarantee that a country retains the ability to repeat a complex project. A twenty-year gap allows an entire generation to pass through without doing that work. An institution may remember that it built such ships while having lost much of the practical experience required to build them again. The caution applies to established builders as well as countries undertaking their first carrier.
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A generation without building carriers erodes practical experience
Long gaps between major shipbuilding projects can leave experienced institutions with a new generation that has never done the work.