Cameroon has taken delivery of two patrol vessels that were completed in China last year, Airbus Defence and Space satellite imagery has confirmed. The imagery from 23 January shows two 64 m vessels moored in the commercial area of Douala, rather than at the existing naval base, which will struggle to accommodate the new vessels. It emerged that the two vessels were being built for the West African country when the Journal du Cameroun newspaper reported on 24 April 2014 that Defence Minister Edgar Alain Mebe Ngo'o had inspected the work during a trip to the Chinese city of Qingdao. The story was accompanied by a photograph showing the Cameroonian delegation standing on the foredeck of a ship armed with a 76 mm PJ26 (the Chinese version of the AK-176) multipurpose gun.
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