What Happened to Project Habakkuk?

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[captain_commenter]

Imagine hitting an iceberg and it starts launching bombers in retaliation 💀

[lightspeedvictory]

IIRC, Mountbatten, when he first proposed this concept to Churchill, showed up at his residence but was told that Churchill was taking a bath. Mountbatten was undeterred and entered the bathroom and dropped the block of Pykrete he had brought with him into the bathtub, surprising Churchill when it didn’t melt in the warm water. When it was presented to the Americans, someone actually fired a pistol at both a block of normal ice as well as a block of Pykrete. The normal ice obviously shattered but the Pykrete cause a ricochet that grazed the pant leg of American Admiral Ernest King and embedded itself in the wall

[rankoorovic]

Funniest thing about this is that they actually started building them

[nizmman]

Heat seeking missiles: Hmm must be the wind

[Cheese]

Picrete haven’t heard that word in years lol

[mahiruten]

You can fight a super sci-fi version of this ship in the Naval Ops game series. It's one of the late game bosses in the 3 games of the series.

The game's version of the Habakkuk is able to regenerate its health due to its hull being made of icebergs. It's also armed with laser weapons.

[Simigema]

titanic been real quiet since this dropped

[AdamSchadow]

Its a massive missed opportunity to not have covered the "Shooting incident" when demonstrating how good the material was.

[jayrtfm]

this is one of the better videos on Project Habakkuk that I've seen. kudos

[evanpodwalny]

I actually knew about this one! I saw it on a show about weird intentions. They also mentioned how ice is generally better for floating on water and not getting blown up by missiles, as highlighted by the Titanic incident. The main problem they pointed out in the show was the fact that it wouldn't really work outside of the Arctic Circle year round or the North Atlantic in winter. Anything south of that would be impractical because of the necessary coolant systems.

[ahmedshaharyarejaz]

Pikrete might have some use as a construction material in Icy Areas.

[captain_commenter]

One of the only designs where ramming could actually be an effective and sustainable tactic in modern warfare 💀

[sanjoyisworking]

I've known this for years, and FINALLY i get a Found And Explained about this beautiful and wild design.

[TerraSpaceIndustries]

Stay Away From Icebergs 🚫 Build a ship out of them ✅

[DocWolph]

Ironically, given what we know today, burgships would likely be used today, especially by the US Navy. A larger landing/launching platform to enable the used of bombers more fighters, ones with more weapons and fuel, enabled by a longer run way. The list can go on and on. These "Ultra Carriers" would also be Nuclear powered, by this day. But only a few would be built, as such massive ships are not needed quite so often as a [less big] Super Carrier. Maybe 3-4 tops by the year 2024.

But the Habakkuk would have to been successfully brought to successful fruition DURING WW2. It is why [the] Aircraft Carrier as we know them today prevail.

[KF]

I’m sure this idea could work not for a giant aircraft carrier, but rather for dirt (or ice) cheap and basically disposable cargo ships, barges or landing crafts.

[jimcurt]

balloons with microphones "would have made RADAR obsolete???" - I don't think so....

[jamiejones]

In Alberta, Canada divers can take tours to look at the scale model replica tested.
After abandoned, eventually sank but structures supposedly still visible?

Not me. Has no idea we lived near the testing lake.

I may be a biologist, but the science is actually impressively sound.

Love people who dream up such ideas, hopefully cure for cancer and akzheimers dementia etc.

[JackIsMe]

Imagine a bomb hits the flight deck and someone casually throwing down sawdust and watering it noticed none of these video's ever mention the human element can't be overly pleasant at sea in a giant ice-cube I mean would heated compartments even be feasable?

[rsookchand]

Refrigeration wouldn’t be a problem on board Habakkuk