LHD accomdation seems pretty good from the photos I've seen (seatrials? they are on one of the links in this forum I think in a video).
Embarked forces are only going to be there for a short ride. I don't know if embarked forces will always be full numbers (Im guessing not). If there is an policing emergency regionally or natural disaster where they want aviation, sea lift but not a full cohort of combat troops (logistics flying in?).
Either way it proberly beats dozing under a hutchi in some mosquito hole.
Few weeks. They have a huge mess, gym, I wonder if they will put a Harry Pies in their, as there is a fair wack of room looking at the cut away pic and some of the layout. That full length deck is huge!! Its not like everyone is going to be restrained to cabins all the time, the mess/rec/misc spaces are huge and offer people a real place to be other than cabins. I would imagine much like on the US carriers, some of that space can be allocated for baskball/netball areas for long deployments. Heck, if they don't get a move on with the helos those aviation decks could be completely empty for the first few years.
One of the big advantages of having a big ship is that you will get much more functionally useful large spaces and not just little rabbit holes with low celings and odd dimentions.
Go into HMAS Onslow and see if you like the accomodation in that. And thats after the deluxe accomodation removing the rear torpedos and putting more bunks in. Hot swap with three people, pissing/crapping into a hole in the wall with your legs in the walkway and do it for a month or more with no coms or air or sunlight. A real sign of the progress over the past 40 years (I know I know, unfair comparison with a surface ship, but Vampire isn't much nicer either).
Embarked forces are only going to be there for a short ride. I don't know if embarked forces will always be full numbers (Im guessing not). If there is an policing emergency regionally or natural disaster where they want aviation, sea lift but not a full cohort of combat troops (logistics flying in?).
Either way it proberly beats dozing under a hutchi in some mosquito hole.
Few weeks. They have a huge mess, gym, I wonder if they will put a Harry Pies in their, as there is a fair wack of room looking at the cut away pic and some of the layout. That full length deck is huge!! Its not like everyone is going to be restrained to cabins all the time, the mess/rec/misc spaces are huge and offer people a real place to be other than cabins. I would imagine much like on the US carriers, some of that space can be allocated for baskball/netball areas for long deployments. Heck, if they don't get a move on with the helos those aviation decks could be completely empty for the first few years.
One of the big advantages of having a big ship is that you will get much more functionally useful large spaces and not just little rabbit holes with low celings and odd dimentions.
Go into HMAS Onslow and see if you like the accomodation in that. And thats after the deluxe accomodation removing the rear torpedos and putting more bunks in. Hot swap with three people, pissing/crapping into a hole in the wall with your legs in the walkway and do it for a month or more with no coms or air or sunlight. A real sign of the progress over the past 40 years (I know I know, unfair comparison with a surface ship, but Vampire isn't much nicer either).
