[Consim-l] FW: Warfare: All at sea

[Mike NotSpecified]

I remember that!  One of those stories that I just couldn't believe the first 
time I heard it.  Like the airships that carried fighters (USS Macon), 
launching and recovering mid-air.

The show MythBusters recently did an episode on the use pykrete (sp?) the 
concept of building with ice.  The couldn't do a whole airfield, but they 
build a speed boat out of newspaper and ice that preformed well


On Thu, 21 May 2009 20:17:22 -0700
  "John Kula" <kula at telus.net> wrote:
>>   Quite apart from the technical challanges the article mentioned, I'd
> first like to hear how and 
>>   where it would ever be used and against who?
> 
> During WW2, we Canadians helped the Brits with the design of HMS Habbakuk
> (or Habakkuk ... nobody seems to remember the original reference). This was
> intended to be a Bergship (he's everywhere, isn't he), a large aircraft
> carrier (well actually a large airfield) made of ice. The final design would
> have had a displacement over 20 times that of the USS Nimitz. A model was
> built. But the final engineering analysis determined that it would not have
> been cost effective.
> 
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