Originally Posted by
SASless
Does this sound about right?
Bunks for 1600....in 423 cabins, galley able to produce 963 meals in an hour. Room for a total of 70 aircraft but with only six deck spots, no cat and no arresting gear.
If you have a crew of 800 why all the spare bunks?
Watch Bills must get interesting at Sea....with only 800 crew.....and still afford time off to rest, eat, sleep and watch movies in the onboard Cinema.
Extra 800 bunks available for embarked air group and/or troops.
Only six deck spots? Maybe for simultaneous landings but otherwise...
No nuclear watch-keepers/maintainers or specialist cat & trap operators required and RN personnel tend to multi-task much more than USN personnel (e.g. we have no specialised ice cream vendors
).
Each QEC carrier costs less than a third the initial price of the Gerald R Ford and that's before you start taking into account through-life costs (particularly manpower) and reactor maintenance and decommissioning.