Battle Stations Season 1

Commissioned in 1938, the British cruiser HMS Belfast was the Royal Navy's most modern warship.

Deadly and undetectable at long range, this super-jet is the latest in fifth-generation fighter technology.

The greatest machine of WWII springs into action. It is made up of thousands of ships and aircraft, tens of thousands of men and millions of tons of steel and concrete.

With its origins in single wing experimentation carried out in Germany in the 1930s, and continuing through cutting edge aviation research in the 1950s and 60s, the B-2 was developed under a cloak of secrecy.

The HMS Victory would play a crucial role in the foremost naval engagement in 19th century maritime history, the Battle of Trafalgar.

When this 60 tons of high-tech military hardware rumbles onto the battlefield there's nowhere for the enemy to hide.

These boats were WWII's most heavily armed fighting boats. Screwed and glued together on a hull made of wood, they were nicknamed "The Devil Boats of the Night".

Developed during the Cold War, this incredible aircraft is now the most powerful and feared helicopter in the world. Able to dive into action at over 200mph, it can deliver a devastating firestorm of missiles or rockets.

Powered by two Rolls Royce Merlin engines, this plane was a revolutionary design with no armour or weapons but could carry the same bomb load as a B-17.

It is the most feared aircraft in the US Air Force. The A-10 Tankbuster was the first aircraft in the US aviation history designed specifically for Close Air Support.

Dogged by controversy, shrouded in secrecy F-117's have become the world's first truly stealth aircraft - forever changing the concept of aerial warfare.

Built to put US pilots back in charge of the skies, the F-15 Eagle proved its superiority in Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom.

This is the story of the young airmen of the "Mighty Eighth" and the angers they faced at 30,000 feet!

One aircraft in the US arsenal best typifies the will to win. Using the latest and most sophisticated computerized technology, the F/A-18 Hornet is now one of the foremost fighters of the 21st century.

Featuring interviews with sailors who served on these gladiators of the sea in the often suicidal Pacific Theatre, striking archive film, much of it in colour, and detailed re-enactments.

The P-38s struggle for aerial supremacy in the skies of the South West Pacific during WWII - Americas Ace of Aces.

The race to produce the first intercontinental jet bomber.

Designed for aircraft carriers, it proved too hot to handle during deck landing.

Weighing in at over 27000 tons and over 800 feet in length, they were known as floating cities.

Designed in the 1950s by Kelly Johnson, the SR-71 Blackbird was the world's first stealthy aircraft, designed to over-fly enemy territory with impunity while photographing 100,000 square miles in an hour.

The Black Hawk remains today the world's most advanced twin-turbine military helicopter and flies wherever duty calls, from hot deserts to the icy Arctic.

The legendary "Black Cat" squadrons won fame as night bombers in the battles of the Solomon Islands.

The MiG 15 was one of the 20th century's most feared high-performance weapons.

Developed from jet technology captured from the Germans after WWII, the F-86 approached speeds of Mach 1.

Bombing from altitudes of over 10,000 feet, the Marauder had the lowest loss rate of any Allied bomber during WWII.

The Vietnam War was the Huey war-a brutal war, where the lethal Huey gunship wreaked havoc on the Viet Cong. The Huey revolutionised U.S. Army tactics and changed the way modern wars were fought.

The RAF Lancaster Bomber ranks as one of the finest aircraft of WWII.

Details how one man was asked to develop a death ray, but discovered radar.

We take the viewer inside the cockpits of the German pilots who flew the jet-powered Messerschmitt 262 which was a wonder weapon.

The terror of being hunted by Hitler's U-boats and the bravery of crews that risked their lives to deliver men and material to defeat Nazi forces.

Adolf Hitler became personally involved in the Tiger Tank, one of history's finest armoured fighting vehicles.

Enter the world of rocket scientists, secret weapons, and the race to destroy two of Hitler's most elusive weapons.

Outlining the most audacious engineering feat of WWII.

Stalin enlisted the ideas of an American engineer, J. Walter Christie, to develop one of the most formidable tanks in history.

Originally built for the RAF, the USAAF's P-51 Mustang became one of the greatest fighter planes ever to be built.

Ride in the American DUKW Amphibious Vehicle (Duck to G.I.s)

In this episode, we fly on a Dakota, and American C47/DC3 cargo plane used to transport paratroopers across the English Channel for the D-day invasion at Normandy.

In this episode, see how it feels to be a Spitfire fighter pilot in a dogfight.

Ride along in the thick of battle in the American M4 Sherman Tank, as it blasts its way into history and paves the way for liberation of Europe.