Invention and implementation respond differently to war. Wartime funding rapidly converts known concepts into usable equipment, while peacetime spending maintains a more balanced research portfolio. Aircraft carriers still advance, but the concentrated development of aircraft engines and practical anti-ship systems may await the 1920s and the funding pressure of the delayed war. Ideas can therefore remain under investigation for longer before navies pay to put them into service.
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How delaying war changes technological development
Peace preserves research, while concentrated investment in turning ideas into operational equipment may await the delayed war in the 1920s.