British and German carrier development differed partly because their industries were serving different wars. British yards were producing monitors, sloops, escorts, and other emergency construction on a very large scale. That maritime program still left room to turn prewar full-flight-deck concepts into physical experiments. German industry faced the competing demands of a continental struggle whose trenches, artillery, and supply system consumed enormous resources. A carrier proposal mattered little unless a state could fund, build, and test it.
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Wartime industrial allocation lets Britain build carrier experiments
Britain could turn full-flight-deck ideas into ships because its wartime program produced monitors, escorts, and experimental vessels while Germany devoted more resources to the continental land war.