The expanding fleet briefly outruns its crews, while maximum shipyard size also falls behind the building programme. The active force already includes 29 battleships, 40 battlecruisers, 116 light cruisers, 42 destroyers, and 93 submarines. Those figures expose the constraint: ordering progressively larger fast battleships consumes people and construction capacity. The campaign shows why fleet size cannot be separated from manpower and industrial infrastructure.
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When fleet growth outruns crews and shipyard capacity
A rapidly expanding capital fleet creates crew shortages and leaves maximum shipyard capacity behind the demands of the building program.