Project Habakkuk

[Gien]

Anyone ever heard of this it was a British project to make a incredibly huge pretty much unsinkable aircraft carrier measuring 2,000 feet long and 300 feet wide. But the odd thing was it was made of ICE well not ice but a harder ice called pykrete a mix of ice and wood pulp incredibly tough. Well I saw it on the history channel and thought I'd mention it in here and see what you guys think.

Wiki info

[EvilHobo]

Heard about it before, interesting subject. Would have been cool to see it made, and then for the Germans to consider melting it.

[Gien]

I think it'd be cool if the team could include a model for it for mods and stuff. Itd be awesome to launch off this thing lol.

[Danthemanbuddy]

I remember that.

[Woods]

Yes, I remember too, but I think they didn't make it because of the cost.

[Gien]

The cost and because the basic Aircraft Carriers were easier and faster to make it was intended to be used to stop the need to capture islands and save the lives of many troops. Still they were ready to make a prototype in 1943 i believe but scrapped it. Still itd be awesome to include something like this in the game even if its only a model to be used in mods and stuff.

[BillSpargo]

Now if they'd planned to plant trees and created landscaping to make it look like a real island then I would be really impressed.

[Gien]

Good idea^^^ It would make it more like an island using it in the pacific it mightve even disguised it a little too. Too bad they didnt think of that lol

[Lamer]

I made some pykrete some time ago when I first came accros this article.

Damn thing takes for ever to freeze (A 4x4cm cube took like 2 days in the freezer) but when finished it is realy quite hard and melts slower than normal ice. IMO it could stop a bullet if thick 5-10cm (a handgun round, I'm not so shure about rifles)

[enigma]

I got told this - havnt the foggiest if its true, Mountbatten walks in while Churchill is having a bath and drops a cube of it in, to present the idea.
Later on when showing the idea off to some American bigwigs, Churchill gets Mountbatten to shoot the cube when the yanks scoff at the idea, the bullet bouncing off it and into someones leg lol.