The familiar story of German carrier aviation can obscure how responsibility was divided between institutions. The air ministry controlled aircraft development, but the Reichsmarine and later Kriegsmarine remained responsible for developing the torpedoes those aircraft would carry. That division matters when assigning blame for weapon performance because the aircraft and its naval weapon did not belong to the same development authority. The passage points toward a fuller history of German torpedo problems while showing how interservice boundaries shape naval aviation capability.
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The German Navy owned aerial-torpedo development
A Graf Zeppelin discussion separates responsibility for German carrier aircraft from responsibility for their aerial torpedoes.