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  • Project Habakkuk: The new UK CV6

    06. 17. 2012 00:01

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Baker654

I think the British needs their own in game CV6 instead of borrowing the Americans Midway. However I did not want to make up a fictional design like what the developers did for the Germans, Japanese (they are using the fictional german cv6 de grasse), Soviets, French and Italians, instead I want to use a real ww2 design even if it was an experimental project that was never completed or even started. Fortunally with deep research I came across a seceret and very weird British project call Project Habakkuk which was esentially a massive unsinkable aircraft carrier made of Pykrete a mixture of Ice and Wood Pulp, meant to fill the gap in the North Altantic and provide Allied Shipping convoys protect against U-boats.

Five different materials were proposed:

1: Pure Ice

2: Pykrete

3: Steel

4: Concrete

5: Timber (originally this was the material recommended by the Admirality before switching to Pykrete)
 

It it even came into two different sub-types depending on its size. The Full Scale version Habakkuk II if completed would of been the largest aircraft carrier ever built. It would of been 2200 feet long and 300 feet wide, certainaly large enough to launch Heavy Bombers such as Lancasters. The second sub-type Habakkuk III was of a more covential size of 1000 feet long only slightly larger than the USS Midway

So I think NF should have the Habakkuk in its type III version made of steel to be the UK CV6

 

This is a size comparison of the Habakkuk Type II to a contemporary Iowa class battleship and a modern day Nimitz Class Supercarrier

 

  • Re : Project Habakkuk: The new UK CV6

    06. 17. 2012 01:02


CNR4806

I fully agree with using the Habakkuk as the UK CV6. Heck, I even suggested it in the past at one point or another.

  • Re : Project Habakkuk: The new UK CV6

    06. 17. 2012 01:37


Baker654

Originally Posted by CNR4806

I fully agree with using the Habakkuk as the UK CV6. Heck, I even suggested it in the past at one point or another.


I am glad that you agree with me. The Habakkuk type 3 would be the UK CV6 due to it being a more coventional size (slighty larger than the Midway). The Type 2 would be far too massive

  • Re : Project Habakkuk: The new UK CV6

    06. 17. 2012 07:26


Tomm96

Finally someone some brings up a suggestion and take in facts.

Also they did test this and it did work perfect (it was up the whole summer and it was one of the hottest summer in the UK during 20th century).

+1

  • Re : Project Habakkuk: The new UK CV6

    06. 17. 2012 08:50


KinGWaR
Would be nice to change of the km/ijn cv6's as well

  • Re : Project Habakkuk: The new UK CV6

    06. 17. 2012 20:47


Baker654

Originally Posted by KinGWaR
Would be nice to change of the km/ijn cv6's as well


at the moment we are focusing on the British and project Habakkuk. The Japanese which would need a fictionous design (yet one that would work in real life) would be last.


Fact of Note: Project Habakkuk (which is consistently misspelt as Habbakuk) name is a Biblical reference because of the project's ambitious goal : "...be utterly amazed, for I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told." (Habakkuk 1:5, NIV)

  • Re : Project Habakkuk: The new UK CV6

    06. 17. 2012 22:08


bloodsky

The name doesnt sound British at all though...

  • Re : Project Habakkuk: The new UK CV6

    06. 17. 2012 22:41


Etheryte

Originally Posted by bloodsky

The name doesnt sound British at all though...


Considering the colonial history, I don't see this as a problem.

  • Re : Project Habakkuk: The new UK CV6

    06. 17. 2012 22:47


power_surge

lol i have looked up that aircraft carrier and wow its big but it looks cool

  • Re : Project Habakkuk: The new UK CV6

    06. 17. 2012 23:36


bloodsky

Just how are they supposed to make it from ice and wood and keep the ice from melting? Rock salt? :/

  • Re : Project Habakkuk: The new UK CV6

    06. 18. 2012 00:11


Baker654

Originally Posted by bloodsky

Just how are they supposed to make it from ice and wood and keep the ice from melting? Rock salt? :/


The Pykrete would of been insulated and the ship would have had a refrigeration plant with a system of ducts, and be powered by 26 electric motors mounted in separate external nacelles as normal internal engines would of produced too much heat for the Berg ship

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