[Stormkeeper]

If you ask me, having the bridge on the neck of the ship is possibly the worst possible location. I have a penchant for shooting thin sections of ships.

[jr2]

In Freespace 2, the hull of the ship is vaporized even 1km away from the blast. The only thing keeping anything within firing range alive would seem to be the lack of air around the exploding ship. Unfortunately for the crew in the tightly cramped passages of the ship, they have an abundance of air (for a short while anyway). It would be interesting to calculate if an Orion exploding in the atmosphere of a planet would represent an extinction-level event. Not to mention a Meson bomb...

...And now we know how the Lucy's planetary bombardment is so effective.    ID4, anyone? .. except, I think Lucy = worse... somehow.  But there's only one Lucy, and ID4 had many ships.  Perhaps the Lucy makes a huge overpressurized wave of air surrounding the planetary beam...  its reaction with the atmosphere / ozone would be interesting.

EDIT: And, today's warships employ multiple hulls (forget what they're called ATM.. bulkheads??).

[NGTM-1R]

Bulkhead is a generalized naval term for a wall; the floor is the deck, the ceiling the overhead. The majority of modern warships actually don't employ a double-hull configuration as it's considered superfluous. If 2000 pounds of high explosive detonate under your keel you've had it, end of story. It's much more common on civilian ships, particularly tankers, which are worried about things like grounding and rocks.

Most submarines could be argued to have a double hull, except, simply put, they don't; the exterior isn't designed to do anything more than provide a hydrodynamic shape. The hull is the interior pressure hull, which is what actually keeps water out. A very few have had true double hulls; the Typhoon did, in addition to a number of other measures like placing batteries outboard of the inner pressure hull which made it possibly the only submarine ever designed that could take a heavy torpedo and live to tell. Some of the other Russian monsters like the Oscar had double pressure hulls as well, which might or might not have helped them when faced with common aerial and shipboard ASW weapons...though almost certainly would have availed them nothing if faced with a Mark 48.

[kalnaren]

Well, the "bridge" subsystem on the GVD Hatshepsut is where the neck attaches to the body, so, yeah, it probably isn't some prominent structure like on ISDs and such.

Well, the bridge on the ISD is located in roughly the center of the front face of the command tower. That huge structure on top between the shield domes is an array of some sort. Apparently the bridge on the ISD is, especially the SSDs, is very heavily shielded and not likely to be damaged by weapons fire short of anything but a direct hit.

In Battlestar Galactica (the new one), the CIC on the Galactica is much more like a submarine command deck. It's located deep within the hull, which is the smartest place for a CIC.

Some books do it this way too -specifically the ships in the Honor Harrington series all have the bridges located deep within the armoured hull. Though in that universe the goal is to avoid getting hit, since any hit is almost guaranteed to penetrate the hull.

If we went with the double-hull for freespace ships, I would bet the bridge is located deep inside the ship.