Notable Point · 9:30-10:33

Shipyard investment underwrites fleet expansion

Repeated investment in shipyard tonnage shows why fleet plans depend on industrial capacity as well as design ambition.

Notes

The campaign repeatedly directs money into enlarging the maximum shipyard size rather than treating construction capacity as a fixed background number. The immediate problem is that available hull designs are already larger than the yards can comfortably build. Later spending pushes the yard limit upward while a large financial reserve supports continued expansion. The fleet can design ships sooner than its yards can build them, so industrial investment governs the pace of expansion.