Turning Icebergs Into Ships - Project Habakkuk 

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

Funniest thing about this is that they actually started building them

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

Picrete haven’t heard that word in years lol

Heat seeking missiles: Hmm must be the wind

titanic been real quiet since this dropped

Elon wishes he could be as smart as Geoffrey Pyke.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Refrigeration wouldn’t be a problem on board Habakkuk

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

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.

Nice Video and an insane Project.

That ad transition was as smooth as an icecube swimming is a glass of whiskey. Nice! 😁🤟

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.

Loved the video @Found&Explained! Can't wait for the next video man! I remember reading an article on Facebook about Project Habakkuk a while back and it was also supposed to be Able to base Lancaster Bombers on it. Imagine being a U-boat and you sink some merchant Ships in a Flow of Icebergs and you see a Squadron of Lancaster Bombers flying over you afterwards LMAO?

Wowser! An iceburg aircraft carrier, that's crazy!

Really enjoyed this one!

British Wonder Weapon.

I WAS WAITING FOR THIS RAHHH

Make a video about active aeroelastic wings and the F18 that used them. But mainly about the wings

Major flaw, i might melt😂😂😂

Super aircraft carrier Habakkuk approaching!!!!!!!

Yess one of my favourite insane ww2 technology’s that could’ve been

I got an idea for a future video, which would perfectly for your channel. where could I tell you more detail about it? edit: I could help with research, as I somewhat know the researchers to this topic in a museum. I assume they'd be happy to help + one of them is australian as much as I remember.

“ - isn’t the runway slippery? It could be dangerous for planes - Nah “

The ice and the Titanic had a baby.

Finally, this finally got mentioned

It was too big to be called an aircraft carrier. Massive, thick, wide, heavy, and far too long; it was more like a floating airbase.

"Okay so in 5 minutes I have to go to work." **sees 20 minute Found and Explained video** **sigh**

Yea i heard of this thing many times

Imagine a bomb hits the flight deck and someone casually throwing down sawdust and watering it surreal.......I 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?

This is also one of many super ship bosses in the Naval Ops series of games

G'day, Hm are those C class cruisers I spot? (not sure on the destroyer types). It's a crazy dream for this to have worked or that bloke to keep kicking a few more years but I guess the addition of CAM then MAC ships kinda surpassed this invention an finally proper built RN standard CVE/CVL's. The CAM & MAC ships might make for an interesting video imo.

12:50 Is that true? It uses as much steel as a fleet of carriers? Or did I misunderstand I thought saving on steel was its advantage

School❌ Found and explained✅

Reminds me of wood gasifiers trying to replace gasoline with wood 😂

Sun: im gonna end this man whole career

“Captain we’re melting” 💀

_"...supply ships from the colonies in North America..."_ 😂 I seen wat u did thar

You should do blohm and voss p192

How about the Battleship made from concrete island

The whole thing about using microphones to triangulate incoming aircraft would work in principle, however I see one massive flaw in using sound. If I come flying over in a Blackbird (SR-71 kind of black bird), I'm going to be outrunning my own noise. I know that's a massive oversimplification of it. It's just that within a second of hearing it, my first thought was what if the incoming object was supersonic?

Titanic be like iceberg dead ahead no no no no no carrier than the head

They could bring this back. Imagine iceberg drone carriers. . . Imagine how insane air defense could be. . .

Is it so hard to make a CV the size of New York Central Park?

If a platform could be built somewhere in the Atlantic, escort planes could theoretically land there to refuel and accompany convoys all the way to England and to safety. But such a platform would, unfortunately, be very resource-intensive. Steel and aluminum were critical wartime resources and their use was restricted to war-related industries-the manufacture of tanks, airplanes, jeeps, and other related weapons of war.

I CALL THIS THE VERY ICE CARRIER!

Look project habakukk si very large but slower

What if these are the floating fortresses in Nineteen Eighty-Four? It would certainly suit their stuck-in-the-forties military.

Fun fact :- Louis Mountbatten was the last governor general of victorian era India.

You don't need air conditioner for this ship

How to MAKE an aircraft carrier out of a mix of ice and wood pulp, you meant. Pykrete isn't ice, and other than the very beginning, there was never an idea to make an iceberg into a carrier, there is far too little above-surface space to land aircraft on, not to mention that icebergs roll over.

The fact that it carried LANCASTERS!!! FRIGGIN LANCASTERS!!!!

So what you're saying is that we need to drop the earth's temperature by about a few degrees and then we can have these ships sailing our oceans. I mean I'm on board. Well in theory.

Penguins are Southern hemisphere, not Northern... unless they're from Hoboken.

Why if it funny that the model is just a really fat hornet

cool

Box grinder.

Where do they get these names?

I want this in world of warships

The name for this crazy Iceaircraftcarrier fits very well.. In Swiss German the word "Habakkuk" means "nonsense".

"melting away"

Unfortunately this carrier would have been useless with the British Pacific Fleet; the Japanese would just let the heat melt the HMS Habakkuk.

Lol i love foreign speakers pronunciations

Pykrete, you take some wood and some ice, put them together you get Pykrete And then one guy pulled out a gun and shot a wood and it shattered and then he shot the pykrete and it ricocheted off and hit someone else Everyone: *cheering*

It would have no hope of joining the Pacific Fleet.

woody ice

Had a stroke when reading the name

Iceberg sink ship => iceberg is unsinkable

I have "read" about this........... it was an actual idea!

Brits after saying Titanic is unsinkable and later sunked by an Iceberg Also Brits: You know what? We gonna build an unsinkable ship made from Iceberg.

Pycrete tested but not carried out full size.

hilarious idea. most of the steel requirements seems to have come from the need to keep at below negative 16-degree centigrade? clearly, you need to make a Pyrkete aircraft carrier AIRSHIP, loitering at a high altitude to stay at below the needed temperature. and its sheer size would negate many of the problems that hounded most flying carrier concepts! ...no this suggestion isn't serious... XD

Ice burger

The thought of an ice carrier in the Pacific theater seems laughable. Maybe in the Arctic?

Titanic alternate ending

This is goofier than the German wonder weapons 💀💀💀

Big carrier. Big target.

I hate when people call us the colonies

Human aircraft carrier

box grinder

Flash! Nazi penguins invade Greenland. Establish weather stations and supply dumps. London alarmed. King summons prime minister.

Ice Age 4 b like

Today this would impossible even in theory. Global warming and ice-ship are not compatible.🤣

It’s not pronounced “Hah Bah Kuk”. It’s “Haba cook”. HABUKKUK.

it was never an iceberg

The script is full of clauses that make no sense and mispronunciations. En masse, floating, nacelles, remaineded instead of remained. I see flickering graphics in the cgi sections. What’s going on?

almost first :)

Lol 😆

somewhat scammer meeelon.

Elon Musk didnt invent anything lmao