Gas turbines provide burst power, while diesel engines offer cruising efficiency, and a modern warship benefits from both. One proposed arrangement distributes three mixed power packs through the hull. One pack would keep the ship functioning, two would meet operational demand, and the third would provide redundancy or permit maintenance without taking the ship out of service. The spare capacity is part of sustained readiness and damage tolerance rather than wasted machinery. Cost cutting often removes exactly this margin on the assumption that maintenance can always be scheduled conveniently.
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Designing warship power plants for maintenance
A mixed diesel and gas-turbine plant becomes more resilient when distributed power packs let a ship maintain one unit without surrendering operational capability.