Talk:Habakkuk

Pykrete versus Pykecrete

Most places seem to have it as 'Pykrete', but the reference I found at the royal naval museum had it as 'Pykecrete'. Maybe it's a feature of it primarily being spoken rather than written down, but I assumed that the museum would probably have more primary sources to draw on and hence be the most reliable account. Getting a definitive answer seems to be hampered by the lack of an 'official' Royal Navy source. Queex_{chthonic murmurings} 10:20, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

The RN source also mispells "Habakkuk" and most other sources don't do that, either. I'm not sure it's particularly well researched, to be honest, since some of the stuff I've seen suggests the story of the ricochet was either an urban legend (possibly based on the disastrous Great Panjandrum test) or that it was just some random US Navy officer holding the gun. King Skeleton (talk) 10:25, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

Fair. wp has the misspelling of Habakkuk, but it's unsourced. I had a quick look to see if anyone had published a history of the project (would make a killer Christmas gift), but the closest I could find was My Tank is Fight which is intended to be a bit excitable and is out of print anyway. So yeah, let's leave it, it's a small kinda-on-mission aside anyway. Queex_{chthonic murmurings} 10:33, 12 December 2014 (UTC)