A new carrier navy does not need to spend a full century reproducing British or American experience. The first decades of carrier development included basic experiments with hulls, piston aircraft, and wartime mobilization that a modern force does not need to repeat literally. Jet integration, airborne early warning, and other later changes also made portions of the oldest experience technologically remote. Even mature wartime navies had uneven night and all-weather capability, so longevity did not translate automatically into uniform proficiency. Published histories, lectures, and professional study allow later officers to learn from both successes and failures before operating their own ships. Experience still has to be practiced at sea, but the learning curve can be compressed because the historical record is available.
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Why carrier experience can be learned faster than it was accumulated
A later carrier navy can study published experience and skip early technological dead ends, so a century of accumulated history need not require a century to absorb.