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To: GeronL

Two reasons.

1) separate operations. Manuevering forward, air ops aft.

2) Redundancy. They are both wired to handle both operations. If a SSM takes out one, they can operate with the other.

Expensive...but worthwhile if you can afford it, both financially and in terms of deck space. The Royal Navy decided it could.


49 posted on 07/19/2014 10:05:43 PM PDT by Jeff Head
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To: Jeff Head; GeronL
Three Reasons

3) For survivabilty the gas turbine plant is separated, two islands allow shortest in hull ducting for the exhaust.

50 posted on 07/19/2014 10:22:53 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Wikipedia is wrong. who knew?)
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