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Chinese Concrete Aircraft Carrier
- Thread starter kilo delta
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brad kaste
Charter Member
I'm a bit confused why the Chinese would build a concrete carrier for display purposes. As far as I know,...they don't have a functioning, operable carrier within their navy. Of course they're displaying an SR-71 Blackbird,....which they don't have either. But maybe they will within a few short years.....
brad kaste
Charter Member
Concrete ships too were built and used during WWII.
http://www.concreteships.org/ships/ww2/
Snuffy
Happiness Consultant
As long as there is enough draft water pressure will equalize and support anything as long as it's designed properly regardless of what it's built out of.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habakkuk
Also Mythbusters made Pykrete *ice and sawdust* to test and a better formulation of Pykrete using newspaper in faver of sawdust they made into a small boat.
As were floating concrete harbours - the Mulberry harbours placed off the Normandy coast after D-Day 1944. Some of the over-production is still lying where it was left in the UK.