Biggest News aggregator with 200 million news articles | vimarsana.com
tensions are rising between the u.s. and china over land grabs by the chinese in the south china sea. u.s. defense secretary ashton carter traveling in asia called on china to stop its expansion immediately. the u.s. is also using surveillance planes to keep an eye on what the chinese are doing. i got rare access, the chance to ride on one on a recent trip to the region. >> gentlemen, welcome aboard. >> thanks for having me. >> glad to have you. >> reporter: my cnn team and i are the first journalists to be allowed inside the p-8 poseidon aircraft during an operational mission. this is an enormously advanced surveillance aircraft but it's also a weapon. it's a submarine killer. these are sonar buoys dropped into the water to track submarines and the plane can be equipped with torpedoes to destroy those submarines. but principally today it's a surveillance aircraft. and up in this section are the plane's eyes and its ears.