chief of the defense force has spoken to his counterparts from countries including australia, china, ind india, indonesia, japan, nepal, new zealand, singapore, thailand, vietnam, the uk and the usasupportive and all offered their assistance. as the focus of the search has moved from the south china sea and straits of malacca to northern and southern corridors, our international partners have continued to provide whatever support they can. a number of assets have been deployed at different phases of the search-and-rescue operation, and currently, there are 18 ships, 29 aircraft and 6 ship-borne helicopters deployed along the northern and southern corridors as follows. in the northern corridor, there are four aircraft, two from malaysia, one from japan and one from the u.s. in the southern corridor, there are 25 aircraft, two from malaysia, five from australia, three from china, four from indonesia, two from india, four from japan, one from new zealand, two from south korea, one from the uae and one from the u.s. of a. all 18 ships are in the southern corridor, six from malaysia, one from australia, five from china and six from indonesia. this deployment includes six helicopters,