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Post subject: Re: WIP HMS HABBAKUKPosted: January 19th, 2011, 6:03 pm
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Post subject: Re: WIP HMS HABBAKUKPosted: January 19th, 2011, 6:12 pm
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Hmmm.. It still misses the ''pykryte'' look, above the waterline it would have looked a lot like floating woodpulp as well. One thing is for sure, this is a difficult one.

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Post subject: Re: WIP HMS HABBAKUKPosted: January 19th, 2011, 6:25 pm
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OOOO... nice, that gives me an idea. Put 50,000 azipods on Greenland and then go U-boat hunting...

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Post subject: Re: WIP HMS HABBAKUKPosted: January 19th, 2011, 7:52 pm
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MitcheLL300 wrote:
Thiel wrote:
Mitchell, Habbakuk never got past initial planning, every single picture or drawing of it is "fake" as you say.
But there where two smaller versions.
So that is actually ferther then planning...

Mythbusters made a speedboat of pycrete. Wich was succesfull for some smaller time...
No. They were technology demonstrators to see if it was even possible to make a ship out of pycrete. If they had been successfull, then initial planning of the haakuk would have started. Without the data from the tests they wouldn't have the data to design it. However, by the time the tests were concluded more conventional, and far cheaper, means had been developed.

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Post subject: Re: WIP HMS HABBAKUKPosted: January 19th, 2011, 9:07 pm
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Nice progress Alex, it is a very hard subject to draw, but the guns are still wrong. You used the 5.25" guns (like on the Dido class AA cruisers), but should have used mountings like those on HMS Victorious here, as these are 4.5"/50 mountings used by the RN during the war on carriers.

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Post subject: Re: WIP HMS HABBAKUKPosted: January 19th, 2011, 10:21 pm
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I wonder if when the pycrete melted, if the flight deck/superstructor portion would still float?


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Post subject: Re: WIP HMS HABBAKUKPosted: January 19th, 2011, 10:47 pm
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DER386 wrote:
I wonder if when the pycrete melted, if the flight deck/superstructor portion would still float?
Possible not.
The superstructure(inner part below flight deck, hangar, rooms etc etc) is like a nimitz class wide, and the rest is pycrete around it.
The rest on top of that superstructure is like 5 times the weight of a nimitz class, i think even more.

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Post subject: Re: WIP HMS HABBAKUKPosted: January 20th, 2011, 12:00 am
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Pycrete, however, does not melt, which is what allowed this thing to at least be theoretically possible. Or at the very least, it would require conditions that are seldom encountered operationally if at all.


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Post subject: Re: WIP HMS HABBAKUKPosted: January 20th, 2011, 8:18 am
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Some idea"s ALVAMA, for improve details
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Post subject: Re: WIP HMS HABBAKUKPosted: January 20th, 2011, 2:08 pm
Okay
I'll use ideas from Hood's Malta.


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