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> Its also basic target motion analysis that a military sonar operator can do in their sleep.

Which makes me wonder: Does the US not have military assets in the area? Or do they and they don't want to disclose their capabilities?

EDIT: I'm behind the times; I didn't know the US had a sub-hunter in the area.

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It's in international waters, the Chinese have no authority here and in any event Australia is coordinating the search. Ocean Shield is an Australian Defence Force ship (although not grey like your typical warship).

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/07/mh370-black-box...

The US has a specialist sub-hunter in the area, and they've made extensive use of P3 and P8 aircraft. I doubt they're terribly sensitive about their ability to find a deliberately pinging object 6000m below the surface.

"There are 11 military aircraft, four civilian aircraft and 14 ships taking part in the search on Wednesday."

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/09/mh370-search-ar...

I think it's safe to assume that someone(US, Russia, China, etc.) has something in the area, but nobody's going to be talking about it to the public.

It's not so much about disclosing capabilities as much as it's just simply operational secrecy. The entire point of a submarine is that it's hard to find.

>I think it's safe to assume that someone(US, Russia, China, etc.) has something in the area

accidentally, this search may find a lot of that "something"

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