Under Woodward's command during the late-1930s, the Navy Yard began to concentrate less on cruiser and other smaller warship production, shifting its priority to the building of new battleships.

VSEL was willing to participate in a merger with a larger company to reduce its exposure to cycles in warship production, particularly following the "Options for Change" defence review after the end of the Cold War.

Due to the naval nature of the Pacific campaign, steel for warship production took precedence over tanks for the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA), creating by default an IJA light tank that performed admirably in the jungle terrain of the South Pacific.

In 1884 he opened a shipyard at Elswick that specialised in warship production.

Ltd. and in 1884 a shipyard opened at Elswick to specialise in warship production.

Li Shanchang, chief of warship production was pleased with Hu and then recommend Hu to Zhu Yuanzhang.

With the outbreak of the Starflyer war, High Angel became the Commonwealth's premier Navy base while the astroengineering companies turned their industrial stations over to warship production.

They could be built in large numbers without using up scarce turbine engines, reduction gears or interfering with larger warship production.

In his 36 years of service he had a vast and varied experience in combat operations, warship production, acquisition and acceptance, personnel management and command.

As warship production in Japan had priority during the 1890s, the technology and industrial infrastructure to construct medium or large caliber weapons was reserved for the Imperial Navy, as a consequence, the first twenty units were imported from Germany in 1905.