Plastie deformation of ice monocrystal is essentially due to dislocation glide in basal planes. Glide on other slip systems or eventually climb of basal dislocations limits the strain rate of polycrystalline ice. In polar ice sheets, a preferred c-axis orientation develops with strain, and induces and strong viscoplastie anisotropy. A ViscoPlastic Self-consistent (VPSC) approach is used for predicting mechanical behavior of polycrystalline ice and texture development. Results are compared to those of the uniform stress model (lower bound) and uniform strain rate model (upper bound). In these models, ice crystals are assumed to deform by basal, prismatic, and pyramidal slip. The slip system resistance of a grain in-situ is determined from th...