Thorium – A Starship Bridge Simulator

Re:Thorium – A Starship Bridge Simulator by Animats on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @04:15PM (#34988455)

It's possible to go much further.[1] This is the "USS Trayer", at the U.S. Navy's Great Lakes Naval Training Center. All U.S. Navy recruits go through an all-night test onboard. It looks like a real ship at night, outside and inside. It's even in water, moored alongside a pier. The ship can be navigated, go into combat, and take damage, including flooding and fires. It's deliberately very stressful.

All this is indoors and inland. It's in a water tank. It's a big simulator for an entire crew, a hundred or so at once.

The U.S. Navy does have bridge training simulators, but not enough of them. That's come out after some ship accidents due to bad coordination and ship-driving on the bridge.

[1] https://youtu.be/jibm7kyIGcM

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Re:Thorium – A Starship Bridge Simulator by herewulf on Thursday March 02, 2023 @03:02AM (#34993247)

The US Army does similar training. There are some dumb "video game" type simulators of vehicles, etc that aren't worth much (VBS 3). However, every Headquarters from Battalion on up to Division or Corps periodically gets out their tents and computer systems to do various Command Post Exercises (CPX). It feels a bit like being on the bridge of a ship when reacting to events and issuing orders and watching units executing those orders on the (computerized and analog) map.

Anyway, probably the Navy and these space simulators are a lot more fun though.

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