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By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is sending an undersea Navy drone capable of exploring waters nearly 15,000 feet deep to potentially help search for any sunken wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, the Pentagon said on Monday. The U.S. disclosure that it was pre-positioning the sonar-equipped Bluefin "autonomous underwater vehicle" in Australia came hours after Malaysia announced that the jetliner which disappeared over two weeks ago had crashed in the southern Indian Ocean. They just got some stark news today from the Malaysian government," said Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby, adding the "the whole world grieves with them." The Bluefin drone is just over 17 feet long and weighs 1,764 pounds (800 kg), according to a Navy factsheet. The decision to pre-position the equipment in Australia comes in addition to the previously announced deployment of a "Towed Pinger Locater," essentially a high tech piece of sonar equipment which can detect an aircraft's black box.
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