Also today a US Navy Lockheed EP-3A “Aries II” (157316) departed from Souda Bay AB, Crete, made a surveillance mission somewhere over Central Mediterranean Sea off Libya (and probably also over Libya).
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We’ve more data to track with more precision the aircraft and to say where exactly the Aries made its mission.
The EP-3A is not a rare presence in this area.
The Lockheed EP-3A is the signals reconnaissance version of the P-3 Orion, operated by the United States Navy