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If there were no other choice, what kind of icebreaking capabilities would an aircraft carrier have? Would it be able to punch through some ice shelves, or would its hull just get torn to shreds on the first pass?
>>28048812
it cant punch through it doesnt even have hands
Dude no you can't do that, don't you know that's how you wake up Gamera?
>>28048812
Ain't it got one of them sonar bubble things up front?
>>28048812
>If there were no other choice, what kind of icebreaking capabilities would an aircraft carrier have?
Pretty shitty. It's hull shape and propulsion systems are shitty for ice breaking. It could move slowly in ice, slower than actual ice breaker or cargo ships with secondary ice breaking capability.
>>28048863
No that's just a bulbous bow
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulbous_bow
>>28048858
Gamera's a good guy, isn't he?
Icebreakers lead ordinary ships through ice all the time... just have a proper icebreaker cut the path for the carrier.
>>28048974
Wait a century and you'll be able to sail your ships around the Arctic without an icebreaker
>>28048974
Forgot my picture, apparently.
>>28048991
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>>28048996
>It froze back over, can you come back?
>Please?
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>>28049015
No, that's how it is now.
>>28048812
I don't think it would be very effective. Against thinner ice sure, but real ice breakers have a hull shaped to push itself up onto the ice and crush it from above. It doesn't simply ram the ice (Although the ice sheets are pushed under the ship so it looks like it.) An aircraft carrier doesn't have that shape, and I don't think it has the engine power to weight ration required to just push right through. although I might be wrong.
>>28048905
He is kind to children. (Tripfag)
well, if we count ordnance on the aircraft, pretty good i'd say. otherwise bad. if i remember correctly real heavy ice can only be broken if the icebreaker get on top of the ice and then break it with its weight (they can do this because of how their bow is shaped)
now to the question of badassery: the USCGs icebreakers with 5 inchers or the soviet ones with reactors for propulsion?
>>28050252
On a related note, how do subs do this?
>>28050339
The sailors just punch out of the windows, right through the ice.
>>28048835
Speaking of which, nuclear Icebreakers make my dick diamonds.
Have a couple icebreaker patrol boats.
>>28050623
>>28048863
Aircraft carriers don't have sonar, anyway
>>28050339
They just push through with their insanely tough pressure hulls. Even so they can only really surface where its two meters or less thick and it takes a while.
none. Icebreakers are more than just a reinforced hull. Google that shit yo
