Italy needed a carrier equipped with a simpler launch scheme than the complicated German system. Because only a small number of catapults and arresting systems were required, Italy could pursue a domestic design rather than organize mass production. That limited run was within Italian technical capability and played to an industrial strength in exceptional bespoke equipment. The recommendation separates Italy's ability to engineer a few high-quality mechanisms from its much weaker record of producing complex equipment consistently at scale.
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Use Italian engineering for simpler carrier equipment
A small run of domestically designed catapults and arresting gear better matched Italy's strength in bespoke high-quality engineering.