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posted by cmn32480 on Sunday January 31 2016, @11:21AM   Printer-friendly
from the probably-no-survivors dept.

A Chinese ship equipped with advanced sonar equipment will soon join the search for the Malaysian airliner believed to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean almost two years ago, an official said on Friday.

The Dong Hai Jiu 101 will leave Singapore on Sunday to join the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 over a 120,000-square- kilometer (46,000-square-mile) expanse of deep seabed by late February, Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss said.

The ship brings the state-of-the-art Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS), which some experts say is more accurate than standard 75 kHz side-scan sonar devises that have been used to scan most of the area searched so far.

With standard acoustic sonar, the image becomes less clear the farther a seabed object is from the equipment. But with SAS, the image remains sharp regardless of an object's distance.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 31 2016, @05:51PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 31 2016, @05:51PM (#297459)

    That's an observation of how Turkey works, not the terrorists.

  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday January 31 2016, @06:16PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday January 31 2016, @06:16PM (#297467) Homepage Journal

    "And, I'm afraid that you've made an ASSumption that the bad guys aren't capable of adjusting their strategy and tactics to new situations. Do you think that they are stupid, and can't learn?"

    Never underestimate your opponents. As stated, if you believe that the terrorists can't learn, then you're going to be fighting last decade's terrorists, while today's terrorists are stomping a mudhole in your ass.

    --
    Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
  • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Sunday January 31 2016, @06:25PM

    by isostatic (365) on Sunday January 31 2016, @06:25PM (#297472) Journal

    A "terrorist" will typically claim credit for something. However sometimes they won't. With Pan Am 103 many people claimed responsibility, but hadn't done it. It took 15 years for Libya to claim responsibility.