A working pykrete carrier is treated as a technological path that would not simply vanish at the end of the Second World War. If Project Habakkuk had succeeded, navies would probably continue using or developing pykrete carriers through the Cold War. The counterfactual extends beyond fleets to ask how casting immense structures might affect bridges and underwater tunnels. A chat observation adds that one-piece hulls made without conventional massive shipbuilding facilities would transform industrial requirements, and the response accepts that consequence. The watch point distinguishes the historical material proposal from the speculative consequences of a successful deployment.
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If Project Habakkuk's pykrete carriers had worked
A successful wartime pykrete carrier would probably keep the material in naval use through the Cold War and alter assumptions about enormous cast hulls and construction infrastructure.