it can with its sensor package, it can see out, if you will, about 20,000 square miles. so from eastern ukraine, depending on its route, which is classified, it could have had a very close look at what the russian positions were and what was going on. every expectation there will be more of these flights. the russians are well aware of u.s. capabilities in this kind of thing. they know that the u.s. is looking at them, looking at those 100,000 forces, seeing where they are, trying to assess their movements, trying to aesz their readiness. but what is interesting is vladimir putin has made it very clear he doesn t want to see any u.s. or coalition, nato military assets in eastern ukraine, anybody near the russian border. these flights do put a military capability of the americans near that border, but, you know, even with putin s objections, the russians are well aware going into this phone call that the u.s. has had a very close look
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they re called sonobuoys. they re a sensor package out of the aircraft. will deploy a hydro dols phone. once it hits the water surface it has saltd water switches that starts activating different deployments. everything in this canister starts to unwind. there s a bunch of gear in there that is packed in nicely. there s a radio antenna that talks to the aircraft so the buoy and the aircraft are constantly in communication. microphone is listening for signals on a very long string and they deploy below the canister. reporter: the australians got this batch from american manufacturers, sent a cargo plane to indiana in recent days to pick up more than 1,000 sonobouys. the device was first tested and deployed by the u.s. navy but not for this purpose. in antisubmarine warfare this is one of the tools the navy has to look for and track enemy submarines. so they re under the ocean surface, they don t have a radar signature. you need to use sound and smart waves both actively and pass