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The Tornado ADV (air defence variant) was an interceptor variant of the Tornado, developed for the RAF (designated Tornado F2 or F3) and also operated by Saudi Arabia and Italy. The ADV had inferior agility to fighters like the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle , [ 294 ] but was not intended as a dogfighter, rather as a long-endurance interceptor to ...
A pair of Tornado F3 aircraft (ZE982 of No. XXV (F) Sqn and ZE763 of No. XI (F) Sqn) in formation flight, March 2005 No. 43 (F) Squadron Tornado F3 ZE887 takes off at Kemble Air Day, June 2008 Italy. Italian Air Force (1995–2004) Gioia del Colle Air Base, Bari. 12° Gruppo (1995–2004) [57] 21° Gruppo (1999–2001) [57] Cameri Air Base, Novara
The United Kingdom was the first country to completely phase out the Tornado when its last two units were disbanded in March 2019. [18] No. II (Army Co-operation) Squadron at Laarbruch then Marham, flying GR4/4A (12 aircraft). Disbanded, operated between September 1988 – January 2015. [19] [20] No. V (Army Co-operation) Squadron at Coningsby ...
On 21 July 1989 ZE833 a Panavia Tornado F3 of No. 23 Squadron RAF was abandoned after it lost height and flew into the sea 35 miles north-east of Newcastle, one killed. [55] [56] On 20 September 1989 XX191 a Hawker Siddeley Hawk T1 of No. Tactical Warfare Unit flew into the ground on approach to RAF Brawdy, two killed.
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The Panavia Tornado was the world's first military aircraft with fly-by-wire control, in service, which was developed by Fairey Hydraulics: it made the spoiler, rudder and taileron actuator for the Tornado. It had worked on the Harrier right from the start in 1967, and would work on it throughout. It built the filtration system of Concorde. [5]
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.