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The Tornado was one of the earliest aircraft to be fitted with a digital data bus for data transmission. A Link 16 JTIDS integration on the F3 variant enabled the exchange of radar and other sensory information with nearby friendly aircraft. [76] Some Tornado variants carry different avionics and equipment, depending on their mission.
IUKADGE directed Panavia Tornado ADVs (pictured) against targets across the North Sea.. The Improved United Kingdom Air Defence Ground Environment, normally shortened to either UKADGE or IUKADGE, was the Royal Air Force's (RAF) ground-controlled interception system covering the British Isles during the 1990s.
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.
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.
Panavia Tornado GR1B ZA450 in No. 12 (B) Squadron markings and an Operation Bolton tail flash. In September 1993, No. 27 Squadron, then based at RAF Marham in Norfolk, disbanded and immediately re-formed as No. 12 (B) Squadron operating twelve Panavia Tornado GR1B aircraft and relocated to RAF Lossiemouth. The squadron was equipped with ...
The North American B-45 Tornado is an early American jet bomber designed and manufactured by aircraft company North American Aviation.It has the distinction of being the first operational jet bomber to enter service with the United States Air Force (USAF), as well as the first multiengine jet bomber to be refueled in midair.
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Under the storm and closer to where most tornadoes are found, evidence of a supercell and the likelihood of a tornado includes inflow bands (particularly when curved) such as a "beaver tail", and other clues such as strength of inflow, warmth and moistness of inflow air, how outflow- or inflow-dominant a storm appears, and how far is the front ...