Not sure if this has been done before or is considered ASB, but what if the Pykrete carrier had been built?
bring on the flame thrower cruisers
the warm breath u boats
and the salt shooting bismark![]()
ignoring your disclaimer, I would have thought that either a) the planes used were planes that had been adapted to land on ice, or b) they put mats down for planes to land on.An iceberg carrier... one thing that always puzzled me about making a ship out of any type of ice. When an airplane lands, how is it suppose to stop? It should just slide right off the ship.
Disclaimer: Do not take literally, repeat do not take literally.
There were a LOT of design issues unresolved when the program was dropped.
Some were avoidable - the designers wanted to steer it using differential thrust, the Navy insisted it had to have a rudder (and nobody had a clue how to build and control a rudder capable of steering 2 million tons of ship)
The MythBusters then built a full-size boat out of the super pykrete, dubbing it Yesterday's News, and subjected it to real world conditions. Though the boat managed to float and stay intact at speeds of up to 23 miles per hour (37 km/h), it quickly began to spring leaks as the boat slowly melted. After twenty minutes the boat was deteriorating, and the experiment was ended. The boat lasted another ten minutes while being piloted back to shore. Though the boat worked, it was noted that it would be highly impractical for the original myth, which claimed that an entire aircraft carrier could be built out of pykrete.