>> reporter: my cnn team and i are the first to be allowed in the aircraft during an operational mission. it's an advanced surveillance aircraft but it's also a submarine killer. buoys are dropped in the water to track a submarine and the plane can be equipped with torpedos to destroy those submarines. up in this section are the eyes and ears. it has video cameras, fin from a red cameras to watch as china makes this enormous land grab in the south china sea creating really manufacturing real estate on the high seas creating islands like this one with an airstrip and a harbor. the fear of the pentagon is that china's militarizing these islands. >> we're out here patrolling just to monitor what's going on on these islands so mostly we come out here and look for what kind of construction activity is going on. >> the flight crew has just had
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