On a choppy day out in the Solent there is a mighty wind blowing off the Hampshire coast and yet everything is perfectly still on board the largest warship the world has ever seen.
The nuclear-powered USS Gerald R Ford has dropped anchor in Portsmouth on its first overseas deployment and it feels like it is bending the elements to its will. No need for sea legs here.
The lead ship of a new class of American aircraft carriers, it weighs 100,000 tonnes and is more than three football pitches in length.
It comes equipped with EA-18G Growlers and F-18 Hornet fighter jets familiar to fans of the latest Top Gun film.
Armed with missiles including Evolved Sea Sparrow and Rolling Airframe, the USS Gerald
