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by Animats 973 days ago
The successor to that one is the USS Trayer. It's at Great Lakes Naval Training Center. It's a 2/3 scale Navy destroyer, indoors, in a water tank alongside a pier. It's not just a mockup; it's a large-scale simulator, and most of the equipment works. New Navy recruits go through a 12-hour training exercise on the ship, called "Battle Stations 21". The Navy doesn't give out full details, but fire and flooding are involved.
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At ⅔ scale, does that mean taller seamen are going to find things a bit cramped?
It is shorter bow to stern. Rooms are normal vertically.