Carriers at War

Twenty stories high and more than three football fields long, aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush cruises deep in the Arabian Gulf for a six-month deployment in April 2017 to help ground troops defeat ISIS.

For every F/A-18 leaving the air wing of a US Navy aircraft carrier, there's a hardworking team onboard making the war machine run. Witness life aboard the USS George H.W. Bush.

The air wing is a carrier's most powerful weapon, made up of over 70 highly specialised aircraft, including helicopters, cargo planes, electronic-warfare jets, and the most potent weapon of all: its F/A-18 Hornets.

Meeting the latest US Navy supercarrier to be welcomed into the fleet, the USS Ford, the lead ship of her class of United States Navy aircraft carriers.