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The Panavia Tornado is a multirole, twin-engined aircraft designed to excel at low-level penetration of enemy defences. The mission envisaged during the Cold War was the delivery of conventional and nuclear ordnance on the invading forces of the Warsaw Pact countries of Eastern Europe; this dictated several significant features of the design ...
The Tornado F2 was the initial version of the Tornado ADV in RAF service, a total of 18 aircraft were built. Making its first flight on 5 March 1984, it was powered by the same RB.199 Mk 103 engines used by the IDS Tornado, capable of four wing sweep settings, and fitted to carry only two underwing Sidewinder missiles . [ 15 ]
RAF Panavia Tornados over Iraq.. In the late 1960s, the British, German and Italian main defence companies looked at developing a strike aircraft together. The West Germans and Italians wanted a more short-range battlefield aircraft (something like the current A-10), but the British, specifically Air Chief Marshal Derek Hodgkinson, argued for a more long range aircraft.
Tornado (BAe) on Fas.org; Panavia Tornado IDS Attack Bomber on Aerospaceweb.org; Panavia Tornado on Tornado-data.com; List of all active German Tornados Archived 20 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine; German IDS Tornado 44+97 at the Deutsches Museum subsidiary Flugwerft Oberschleißheim, Germany (DE)
English: An air-to-air right side view of two Italian Air Force Tornado aircraft of 36º Stormo, 156º Gruppo, participating in an inflight refueling during NATO exercise Dragon Hammer '87, an air, land and sea operation involving U.S., Italian and Turkish forces.
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The wing flies the Panavia Tornado IDS. The Taktisches Luftwaffengeschwader rondle and patch display a top down view of the Tornado IDS. The unit was renamed on 1 October 2013 in the course of the restructuring of the German Air Force.
During the development of the Panavia Tornado, the regiment was expanded further, and in 1983, the Software Management Group (Gruppo Gestione Software) was established. The Flight Test Center ( Centro Sperimentale di Volo ) was established in 1999 to unify all research and testing departments of the Italian Air Force, with the Experimental ...