USNI News – The U.K. and Germany will dispatch P-8A Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA) in the coming months for a joint surveillance mission to track Russian submarines in the North Atlantic, officials announced last week. U.K. Defense Secretary John Healey and German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said Thursday that German Navy P-8 aircraft will operate from U.K.’s Lossiemouth Air Base, Scotland, “to help defend against Russian aggression,” flying alongside the Royal Air Force P-8 aircraft.