In this documentary 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.
Engineering projects around the globe keep getting bigger and more ambitious. there are structures being designed and built that will dwarf anything that has come before. Plans are on the drawing board for projects so huge – not only in scale but in their implications for society – they’re almost beyond imagination. This documentary that eyes the largest construction projects ever imagined – 'Extreme Engineering'.
