Joining the Hunt for Pirates
Japan has agreed to add two P-3C patrol aircraft to the antipiracy mission off Somalia. It will be the first time for P-3C planes to be dispatched on an overseas mission.
The mission will involve about 150 personnel, including the air crews and Ground Self-Defense Force personnel who will guard the airport, according to the ministry. In addition, the Air Self-Defense Force will transport personnel and necessary supplies to the airport.
The P-3C aircraft will complement two MSDF destroyers that have been conducting escort missions for Japan-linked commercial ships in the pirate-infested Gulf of Aden, patrolling a vast area off the Horn of Africa.
The two planes will search for pirate boats and provide information to the destroyers, Japan-related ships and other countries’ military vessels navigating the high seas. So far the destroyers have escorted 44 vessels between late March, when they began their mission, and last Wednesday.
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