This morning a US Navy Lockheed EP-3A “Aries II” (157316) departed from Souda Bay AB, Crete, made a surveillance mission over Central Mediterranean Sea off Libya (and maybe also over Libya).
We’ve more data 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