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Post Unknow grammatical structure...

I was watching a science fiction film and I remember a sentence that I understood but I don´t know what kind of grammatical structure it was.

"Attention, attention, our ship is to make a modular transformation in 1 minute..."

My problem is with "our ship is to make..." What the letter "to" is used between "is" and "make"?


Would you explain me what kind of grammatical structure is it?

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"Attention, attention, our ship is (going) to make a modular transformation in 1 minute..."
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