JustStopDude
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- May 7, 2017
You cut the overall crew size, it's a nightmare for maintainance and watchstanding. You might be able to combine certain watches in the engine room, but the overall maintainance is going to remain pretty much the same along with the number of people you need in the engine room at any given time. So fewer crew members, longer and more frequent watches. And sometimes we have to fix stuff that might take us over 24 hours of work. On a larger crewed ship, you can shuffle around the watch bill to get people some sleep.I don't recall the Zumwalts having that problem as the class is certainly big enough to correct it without issue and was built to MIL-SPEC
Unlike the LCS program which did had that problem before adding the additional personnal.
I do hope the Zumwalt and the DDG(X) Next-Generation Destroyer would be a repeat of the Seawolf and Virginia class submarines or the B-2 and B-21 bombers.
Burke boys have over 250 sailors and talk to any of them, their work load is tough because they don't have enough people. The Zoomies have 175. I used to be an LPO of an engine room in the navy. I seriously don't know how I could keep a propulsion plant running with just 25-35 people.