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>> reporter: obviously, we are dealing with a much smaller area here. we have a relatively good idea meaning in the scope of tens of hundreds of miles in the year that we are searching. this is an indonesian-led search. so the u.s. navy is just supporting. we will go wherever the ind notion government asks us to go and support. with mh-370 there wasn't whole lot of fidellty or certainty where that plane can go down. you use sonar that can handle much larger areas. >> have you been able to detect any of the penging from the plane's black boxes. >> so far, there haven't been detection of penging...

>> absolutely. we have a variety of capabilities available, ranging from ships to aircraft to specialized divers to advanced donors. "the uss ft. worth" is on that list and we are working at the request of the indonesian government to make sure any of these capabilities that might be helpful in the search are ready to go if the indonesian government requests them. >> so they are ready to go. it's really a matter of when they are requested. is the u.s. supplying sonar technology at this point? we saw back in march devices that are certainly larger some are smaller, but will any of them be on si...

Be where you saw it. and i don't mean by a little bit. it may be five miles, six miles, seven miles away. big change. and once you go below the surface, then it really gets complicated. we keep talking about the underwater technology. undeniably important in terms of locating the details once you get there. for example, you could go down here with the side scan s.o.n.a.r.,t terrific device tht sends a ping signal and creates by doing this an underwater topographical map. this is what comes out of that. you get images like this which would emerge and show you basically contours under the water ...