which only reached operating capability in december '13, it's phenomenal. it's got signal intelligence capability. it is a phenomenal piece of kit. technology has its limitations. >> right. >> when the sea states are high, when the weather's coming in, when the visibility is low, the mark 1 eyebaeyeball is almost m important than the technology on board. the technology that is used to hunt for submarines, the p-3 orions have this magnetic anomaly detector. what that does is detects big lumps of metal just under the surface of the ocean, submarines that actually disturb the earth's force field. it's an incredible piece of kit but i would argue it's rendered ineffective against something like this. >> it's not a big piece of metal, also it could be a shipping container which is metal, a number of different things. stand by, guys. one pilot wonders why crews aren't searching on land