Proposed WWII UK Aircraft Carrier made of an iceberg .. Project Habakkuk

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Project Habakkuk


Project Habakkuk was a plan by the British in World War II to construct an aircraft carrier out of pykrete (a mixture of wood pulp and ice), for use against German U-boats in the mid-Atlantic, which were beyond the flight range of land-based planes at that time.

The idea came from Geoffrey Pyke who was an English journalist, educationalist, and later an inventor whose clever, but unorthodox, ideas could be difficult to implement

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[Mech]

Mother of god.......

 

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When I first started looking for information I thought it was the German navy who had come up with this monstrosity. I guess Germans were not the only ones who made big weird weapons during WWII

 

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[Selim I]

Damn... that's a real monster contruction