At the same time, the German Navy made the decision to disband one of its two Panavia Tornado fighter-bomber wings.

To accomplish its mission, the wing operates 37 Panavia Tornado aircraft as well as 8 IAI Heron drones.

[1] The Tornado aircraft are equipped with reconnaissance sensors that are carried in a pod mounted under the fuselage.

Depending on the variant used, the reconnaissance pod with optical and infrared sensors, can reconnoiter targets both day and night.

The role of Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses was inherited in April 2013 from Jagdbombergeschwader 32 when the latter unit was disbanded.