Sounds like the Russians have been designing our Navy ships.
Ships like the Zumwalt, destroyer or whatever it was supposed to be, the litoral ships/boats and this cluster with the touch screen on combat ships.
Supposedly, the Navy ships are intended to go into harms way and as a result, suffer some damage. That’s why there are numerous casualty control drills on how to keep the ship operating with some damage. All engineering/propulsion systems should be designed to be operated manually if necessary
I was an engineer on a couple of Liberty ships in which the engineering plant could be fully operational without electricity. The back-up boiler feed and fuel oil pumps were steam reciprocating pumps. . The forced draft blowers were steam turbine. Can’t get much simpler than that.
We won WW2 with ships like that. But then, the sailors were of a much sturdier stock.
I understand that there are no more steam ships, but still, there must be a way to design modern ships, with gas turbines, that can be simple to operate and repair battle damage.
I would help also if you could have an all male crew, unlike on the USS Fitzgerald where the mostly female bridge watch were having a cat fight and refused to talk to each other, wrecked the ship and killed some of their shipmates.
But you have been told that diversity is good for everyone, right?
Correction: I said that I was on Liberty ships, I’m old but not THAT old.
I should have said I was on Victory ships.