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Real technical drawings, all at the same scale — battleships, submarines and one very large aeroplane, with a person for reference.

The giantsThe biggest battleship, the biggest submarine and the biggest aircraft ever built.
YamatoBattleship · Japan · 1941 Yamato — side view
263 m
Typhoon classBallistic missile submarine · USSR · 1981 Typhoon class — side view
175 m
Antonov An-225 MriyaCargo aircraft · USSR · 1988 Antonov An-225 Mriya — side view
84 m
← a person, 1.8 m, at the same scale
Drawn to the same scale · SUPERSHIPS

Drawings from Wikimedia Commons, converted to line art: Yamato, HMS Lion, HMS Queen Mary, SMS Derfflinger, SMS Seydlitz, Scharnhorst, Dunkerque — Alexpl (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Typhoon class, Ohio class, Borei class, Vanguard class, Triomphant class, Yasen class, Virginia class, Los Angeles class, Seawolf class, Astute class, Oscar II class, Alfa class, USS Nautilus, Sōryū class, Dolphin class — Mike1979 Russia (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Antonov An-225 Mriya — Cuculcan (Public domain). Lengths overall; drawings show the side view.