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Aboard the "Vampire Carrier" with The Wall Street Journal

Shelby Holliday's report follows overnight flight operations and ammunition deliveries as U.S. warships prepare for possible escalation involving Iran.

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How the USS George Washington Is Preparing for Possible Iran Escalation | WSJ

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1:14The carrier runs an overnight flight schedule, earning it the nickname "Vampire Carrier."
3:44Brian Garcia explains replenishment at sea and shows ammunition storage, including bunker-buster bombs and standoff missiles.
6:50Carrier crews use a flight-deck planning board and maintain aircraft components and engines.
8:18USS Shoup's captain shows the destroyer's vertical launch systems and Phalanx close-in weapon system.
9:21Rear Adm. Jeffrey Heames addresses strike-group preparedness and morale during deployment.

The flight deck works overnight. Aboard the USS George Washington in the Arabian Sea, that schedule has earned the ship the nickname "Vampire Carrier," and gives Shelby Holliday's report its demanding setting.

"It's incredibly hot, it's incredibly loud. It's orchestrated, but it's chaos," the correspondent says. The Wall Street Journal's most watched new upload of the week takes viewers from aircraft launches to ammunition storage, then aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Shoup. It has reached roughly 1.4 million views.

Weapons officer Brian Garcia explains replenishment at sea, with bunker-buster bombs and standoff missiles among the supplies shown. Aircraft handling, maintenance and sailors' accounts of working away from home broaden the report beyond its central question: how the ships are preparing should President Trump order further attacks on Iran.

Military reporting also supplies the channel's busiest older upload right now. Its Space Force episode, posted earlier in October, examines satellite-jamming equipment and is drawing more daily views than any other video in its current momentum lineup. The newer Cuba report follows, exploring private enterprise growing alongside failing state-run institutions.

Across sixteen uploads, the week's subjects stretched from Lula's election victory to Anthropic's IPO filing and the U.S. campaign trail. The channel added nearly twelve million views over seven days, while its subscriber count stayed unchanged. Daily viewing is modestly above its usual pace.

Among nearby news channels, News24 and DW News had larger weekly viewing totals, while 60 Minutes Australia had a quieter week. For the Journal, the distinctive thread is reporting from places viewers rarely enter: a carrier's ammunition spaces, a Space Force base and businesses navigating Cuba's economic transformation.

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