A German P-3C Orion maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft (MPRA) has returned to Djibouti to rejoin the fight against piracy.
The German MPRA together with its crew with joint the anti-piracy mission as part of the EU NAVFOR-led operation Atalanta.
The P-3C, its crew and supporting staff were deployed to the Horn of Africa area of operations on March 23.
The German MPRA will work alongside the Spanish MPRA detachment which is permanently based in Djibouti.
The German aircraft will boost and support what the Spanish MPRA already provides to Operation Atalanta. Its comes with imagery intelligence, radar surface searches and high surveillance capabilities.
Spain and Germany have both been deploying MPRAs to the area since the start of operation Atalanta in 2008.
