Wed, May 31, 2006
In this episode of Extreme Engineering, A look at the destroyer ship Uss Donald Cook's weapons systems and operations. We will see the incredible precision needed in the installation of a missile launcher. We will witness an exercise for connecting fuel lines at full speed from two fully loaded vessels, at sea. A one hundred and eighteen tone piece of sonar is attached to the front of the ship. We will see how a Blacksmith builds a custom wire mount used to clasp and support two hundred and fifty miles of cable.
Tue, Nov 13, 2007
In this episode of Extreme Engineering, We are heading to Fort Knox, Kentucky Armor Center Tankers and Training Firing Range to look at the most powerful tank in the United States Army's seventy tones M1- Abraham main battle tank, valued at five million dollars a piece! With fifteen hundred-horse power turbine engines, its one hundred and twenty millimeter gun so accurate, it can hit a target almost two miles away; it is one of the most feared of its kind. We will follow a one million dollars restoration for one of them.