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An aircraft carrier
made from ice.
Project Habakkuk explored an ice-based aircraft carrier during World War II, including the use of wood-pulp-reinforced ice called pykrete.
It remained an experimental plan,
not an operational carrier.
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Reviewed: 2026-09-30