Milsurp After Hours

(see Duncan, we go way back )

The 127 metre Austal trimaran seaframe is the platform for the LCS’s mission and weapon systems. This seaframe provides superior seakeeping and aviation as a result of its long, slender central hull and smaller side hulls (“amahs”). The trimaran hullform provides a huge internal mission deck with a large payload carrying capacity and superior seakeeping capability.


Located above the mission bay is the largest flight deck on a surface combatant capable of conducting dual H-60 helicopter operations and accommodating the US Navy’s largest helicopter, an H-53, a feature not available on similar size naval warships. The vertical location of the flight deck on the trimaran hull form provides the highest flight deck elevation on a combatant ship other than a major amphibious vessel or aircraft carrier.

Aughnanure wrote:I was in sumarines . . . in and on the docks at Cockatoo Island Dockyard, as a Marine Dimensional Inspector (MDI for short). Never managed to go submerged and, if the truth be told, never really wanted to.