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I'm not sure the engines are all that relavent as a driver of crew: the engines don't generally seem to require all that much. Engines in general seem to be pretty low manpower these days, since we left coal and you no longer needed people to manually shovel stuff into the engine. Likewise...

This is one reason I was looking for some info on how the actual burkes crew is laid out. For example, running the missiles on a Burke is probably more complicated than runnimg the missiles on a nuclear submarine: you have a much more complicated targetting situation to work off of. So, while...

Could you elaborate on the lower crew number? I would figure crew would more track the number of systems that need to be run, and a Burke has a larger.vateity of weapons. But, as I said I'm fairly limited in knowledge to draw any firm conclusion.

Could you elaborate why it would be more in line with a boomer submarine (about 150) vs a surface ship (300 odd)?

Well, it's supposed to be a roughly equivalent ship: about a 100 missiles, medium gun, several point defense systems, sensor sweet, two short range light shuttles, longish endurance. I was wondering if such a spaceship would need a similar crew, or less. Ive been looking to see if I can find a...

Basically, if you had a spacecraft similarly equipped as an Arleigh Burke destroyer, would you need about the same number of crew in a spacecraft similarly armed and equipped, or would it be less? Or more? I generally think surface warships give a rough idea of how much a spacecraft would need...