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National Geographic Documentaries - Inside: Super Carrier

Seizoen: 2007 - Aflevering: 993 / 745 - Eerst uitgezonden: 04 mei 2007 - Episode ID: 413017

Fresh from the shipyard after a $2.5 million makeover, the USS Eisenhower is the pinnacle of aircraft carrier technology. Powered by multi-megawatt nuclear reactors, this 97,000-ton steel behemoth has an air wing of 85 planes and next-generation radar and combat capabilities giving her a global strike capacity. Before the Navy will deploy her to the Persian Gulf however, she must prove her worth by winning a gruelling, two-week exercise that pits her against another carrier in battle – the USS Roosevelt. It’s a massive war game that involves live ordnance and real bombs. Each carrier is deployed with a full arsenal of fighter jets, destroyers, battleships, cruisers and submarines. Never before seen outside the military, documentary cameras embedded in the Joint Task Force Exercise capture the story of a super carrier where 6,000 men and women run one of the most complex machines ever built.