I have made a crude block of pykrete and found it to have very much the advertised properties. It was very strong, no problem standing on a 15cm cube of pykrete and it took several times longer to melt than regular ice. I am sure if you make some of it you will end up like me, standing there looking at it and trying to think of something useful for something that neat
Pike-crete ships were envisioned in the event that Great Britain fell. They weren't supposed to be powered originally and were to be simple islands. I didn't believe the claims on how tough this stuff was so I mixed some up in a 1 gal. milk jug and froze it in our chest freezer. Best mixture seemed to be about 3 parts saw dust to 1 part water. I shot it with a 1952 Czech nickel jacketed 8mm armor piercing round from my 1943 byf Mauser. The round came almost straight back at me and left a dime sized white spot in the Pike-crete. If tou don't believe me try it your self but make sure you shoot from behind some thing sturdy!
I wonder about that spinny drum sometimes. Like why the rockets weren't simply mounted in the middle so they couldn't cause it to turn. Or why not just use a torpedo.
Interesting gamer note: The PS2 series Naval Ops (Koei Entertainment) (Warship Gunner, Warship Gunner: Fleet Commander, and Naval Ops: Warship Gunner 2) is known for having ridiculous Uber Bosses (the 80 Knot Jet Engine Cruiser Wirbelwind, the twin-hull Battleship Harima, the Drill Battleship Arahabaki, the triple hull battlecarrier Musspellheim, the island obliterating Battleship Final Boss Druna Skass, so on and so forth but there is also an iceberg aircraft carrier named, you guessed it, Habukkuk. Adding insult to injury it isn't even that hard of a boss, just build your ship with LOTS of AA and you can obliterate its air power and then use big guns and torpedoes to sink it.
Speaking of the Goliath, the Australian Armour and Artillery Museum recently completed the restoration of their Goliath and the videos of the restoration is on their YT channel.
The pikecrete carrier would have worked but the war would have been over before it was able to be put into service. Pikecrete is both significantly slower melting than ice but also far tougher.
#4 had me cracking up. Not necessarily at the concept, but the sheer amount of materials required to actually build this thing. Especially when they kept adding requirements, like making it torpedo-proof and lengthening it to allow heavy bombers to use it.
The Panjandrum recalls Congreave's rockets at the time of Waterloo. They were unguided and very prettliy went everywhere but where they were intended to go.
#5: "I'll break down in your general direction!" #4: "I'll melt in your general direction!" #3: "Sorry, no need for my farts in this war...." #2: "I'll fart in your general direction!" #1: "I might roll in your general direction!"
You might want to look at the Hafner Rotagliders , the Rotachute, Rotabuggy (a flying Jeep) and the proposed Rotatank (yes it is what it sounds like). They failed as weapons but the Rotachute inspired Igor Benson to produce his giroplanes and ultimately ALL modern autogyros.
650 metres of cable, which starts out wrapped around a drum. So literally a resistor. I'm kinda surprised the electrically powered ones didn't just melt the wire.
A far superior 304 version of the Goliath was tested but destroyed by the man with the shield. HYDRA actually launched a German version of Habakkuk, but it was sunk by the man in the cape. Likewise, HYDRA managed to turn the Wind Cannon into a usable weapon, but the Blackhawks put paid to it. And HYDRA fielded giant, armed and manned Panjandrums, but the Blackhawks put paid to them, too. (Yes, I'm kidding.)
Failure that succeeded: the Gedunk Cruiser. Ferroconcrete ships that turned out to use as much steel as their conventional counterparts. Navy put big freezers on them and delivered ice cream to the fleet.
The Panjandrum may just have been a smokescreen for other, more sensible, weapons under development for D-Day such as Hobart's Funnies. Why else continue with it or allow the public to watch the testing?
Habakkuk was an interesting idea. That went nowhere. Had one been kept in the mid North Atlantic for combating U-Boats it would have had a positive effect.
Although the German Goliath remote vehicle didn't really work, is it not the ancestor for the British armies mk.7 Wheelbarrow & Northrop Grumman's Cutlass bomb disposal remote vehicles which in some instances place an explosive in order to defuse a device so in some ways was ahead though misunderstood in application?
Dear Darkness, were you aware that the commander of the - erm - 'Panjandrum Shenanigans' (as I call 'em) was a certain Lieutenant Ian Fleming? Yep - the guy that wrote the James Bond novels. That still makes me laugh. PS, there's footage on TH-cam somewhere of the Thing chasing his dog up Instow Beach...
Let's see... British developed mortars that fired grappling hooks meant to entangle low flying German aircraft.(spoiler: they didn't.) Rockets attached to tanks to move them to a higher elevation. Didn't work... but apparently made for great spectacle.
Youre german audiance isnt seething because of youre pronounciation its because how the WAY you talk german. Dude, you dont have too talk so agressifley, just say it normaly.
I have made a crude block of pykrete and found it to have very much the advertised properties. It was very strong, no problem standing on a 15cm cube of pykrete and it took several times longer to melt than regular ice. I am sure if you make some of it you will end up like me, standing there looking at it and trying to think of something useful for something that neat
Thanks Jamie and Adam for introducing me to pycret. Your super piercet was pretty cool.
Idea: get a time machine, take six rocket wheels and a freight wagon. Make it into an 2-6-2 rocket locomotive and see if BR wants any X'D
If BR really wanted it, they would have taken the BR time machine to you in the future and got it.
That would be awesome
BR: "The rocket is liquid-fueled, right?"
[Five seconds of tense silence]
" *I'lL tAkE yOuR eNtIrE sToCk* "
NYC RR had a rocket train lol
Go home British Rail , you’re drunk.
The rocket wheel thing is about as unstable as it’s inventor
Pike-crete ships were envisioned in the event that Great Britain fell. They weren't supposed to be powered originally and were to be simple islands. I didn't believe the claims on how tough this stuff was so I mixed some up in a 1 gal. milk jug and froze it in our chest freezer. Best mixture seemed to be about 3 parts saw dust to 1 part water. I shot it with a 1952 Czech nickel jacketed 8mm armor piercing round from my 1943 byf Mauser. The round came almost straight back at me and left a dime sized white spot in the Pike-crete. If tou don't believe me try it your self but make sure you shoot from behind some thing sturdy!
The intent with them was to use them as giant aircraft carriers for the invasion of the Japanese Home Islands. Not if Great Britain fell.
I wonder about that spinny drum sometimes. Like why the rockets weren't simply mounted in the middle so they couldn't cause it to turn. Or why not just use a torpedo.
Interesting gamer note: The PS2 series Naval Ops (Koei Entertainment) (Warship Gunner, Warship Gunner: Fleet Commander, and Naval Ops: Warship Gunner 2) is known for having ridiculous Uber Bosses (the 80 Knot Jet Engine Cruiser Wirbelwind, the twin-hull Battleship Harima, the Drill Battleship Arahabaki, the triple hull battlecarrier Musspellheim, the island obliterating Battleship Final Boss Druna Skass, so on and so forth but there is also an iceberg aircraft carrier named, you guessed it, Habukkuk.
Adding insult to injury it isn't even that hard of a boss, just build your ship with LOTS of AA and you can obliterate its air power and then use big guns and torpedoes to sink it.
Speaking of the Goliath, the Australian Armour and Artillery Museum recently completed the restoration of their Goliath and the videos of the restoration is on their YT channel.
The pikecrete carrier would have worked but the war would have been over before it was able to be put into service.
Pikecrete is both significantly slower melting than ice but also far tougher.
#4 had me cracking up. Not necessarily at the concept, but the sheer amount of materials required to actually build this thing. Especially when they kept adding requirements, like making it torpedo-proof and lengthening it to allow heavy bombers to use it.
The Panjandrum recalls Congreave's rockets at the time of Waterloo. They were unguided and very prettliy went everywhere but where they were intended to go.
#5: "I'll break down in your general direction!"
#4: "I'll melt in your general direction!"
#3: "Sorry, no need for my farts in this war...."
#2: "I'll fart in your general direction!"
#1: "I might roll in your general direction!"
#4 would take a LONG time to melt. It's suprisingly hard to melt
Thanks man! Keep it up!
An iceberg has 90% below the water. How much of a vessel made of pikecrere would be below the water? Would it be any different from a normal ship?
An iceberg is mostly water. Pikecrete isn't. There's quite a bit of sawdust. Different density
There's enough material out there, I'm sure you could make at least one sequel.
Possibly several.
You might want to look at the Hafner Rotagliders , the Rotachute, Rotabuggy (a flying Jeep) and the proposed Rotatank (yes it is what it sounds like). They failed as weapons but the Rotachute inspired Igor Benson to produce his giroplanes and ultimately ALL modern autogyros.
Here me out you should talk about the B-17 that landed itself
650 metres of cable, which starts out wrapped around a drum. So literally a resistor. I'm kinda surprised the electrically powered ones didn't just melt the wire.
A far superior 304 version of the Goliath was tested but destroyed by the man with the shield.
HYDRA actually launched a German version of Habakkuk, but it was sunk by the man in the cape.
Likewise, HYDRA managed to turn the Wind Cannon into a usable weapon, but the Blackhawks put paid to it.
And HYDRA fielded giant, armed and manned Panjandrums, but the Blackhawks put paid to them, too.
(Yes, I'm kidding.)
Wait... none of that is true? Say it ain't so!
But seriously, folks -- anybody notice that the Habakkuk would've been about as big as a Nimitz-class supercarrier?
Failure that succeeded: the Gedunk Cruiser. Ferroconcrete ships that turned out to use as much steel as their conventional counterparts. Navy put big freezers on them and delivered ice cream to the fleet.
The Panjandrum may just have been a smokescreen for other, more sensible, weapons under development for D-Day such as Hobart's Funnies. Why else continue with it or allow the public to watch the testing?
Habakkuk was an interesting idea. That went nowhere. Had one been kept in the mid North Atlantic for combating U-Boats it would have had a positive effect.
When you read the first tank's name in German; i thought you called it the Gundamstiger.
As a Gundam fan; my ears picked up on it.
Although the German Goliath remote vehicle didn't really work, is it not the ancestor for the British armies mk.7 Wheelbarrow & Northrop Grumman's Cutlass bomb disposal remote vehicles which in some instances place an explosive in order to defuse a device so in some ways was ahead though misunderstood in application?
Had they been wireless I think they may have been a lot more effective, but the tech wasn’t there yet.
Probably would have made more functional sense in WW1 trench warfare scenario for clearing barbwire and other obstacles ahead of a charge...
This could be a looong series.
I was thinking the same thing. Especially with as weird as the Germans and British got.
Concerning #1...I now see where the writers of the Amazing Spider-Man comic got the idea for the War Wheel in the late 80's...
Dear Darkness, were you aware that the commander of the - erm - 'Panjandrum Shenanigans' (as I call 'em) was a certain Lieutenant Ian Fleming? Yep - the guy that wrote the James Bond novels. That still makes me laugh. PS, there's footage on TH-cam somewhere of the Thing chasing his dog up Instow Beach...
What happened to the left channel?
What left channel?
@@bedlamkids4845 the left audio channel. His voice is panned to the right.
Hey history can you do a video on Queen Mary
Use the winf cannon against drones
I can't beleive an iceburg aircraft carrier was actully considered
I'm surprised "The Bat Bomb" didn't make the list. Maybe next time.
dont forget the pigeon aiming bomb
Let's see... British developed mortars that fired grappling hooks meant to entangle low flying German aircraft.(spoiler: they didn't.)
Rockets attached to tanks to move them to a higher elevation. Didn't work... but apparently made for great spectacle.
Yep, it's one of those comments - I wasn't going to say until you prompted me. Leytonstone is pronounced "Laytonstone".
Does anyone else have a mental image of someone crawling away from a Cultivator MK 6... driven by Deadpool?
I wish I had a tracked mine to drive around on. I would take out the explosives and put in a cooler and larger fuel tanks.
That's basically what that one photo of the GIs with the captured Goliaths were doing.
I see the Panjandrum. I shall ask for notification. I am a simple man.
honestly I think the panjamdrum could work nowadays
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Spicy German roombas
For I schall work a work you shell not belive and any ubote comader coming across the ting would not have believed it
Number 1 looks like cheap toy
Youre german audiance isnt seething because of youre pronounciation its because how the WAY you talk german. Dude, you dont have too talk so agressifley, just say it normaly.