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Panavia Tornado - Twin Engine Sweep Wing Fighter/Bomber
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- čas přidán 10. 03. 2018
- The Panavia Tornado is a family of twin-engine, variable-sweep wing multirole combat aircraft, which was jointly developed and manufactured by Italy, the United Kingdom, and West Germany. There are three primary Tornado variants: the Tornado IDS (interdictor/strike) fighter-bomber, the suppression of enemy air defences Tornado ECR (electronic combat/reconnaissance) and the Tornado ADV (air defence variant) interceptor aircraft.
The Tornado was developed and built by Panavia Aircraft GmbH, a tri-national consortium consisting of British Aerospace (previously British Aircraft Corporation), MBB of West Germany, and Aeritalia of Italy. It first flew on 14 August 1974 and was introduced into service in 1979-1980. Due to its multirole design, it was able to replace several different fleets of aircraft in the adopting air forces. The Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) became the only export operator of the Tornado in addition to the three original partner nations. A tri-nation training and evaluation unit operating from RAF Cottesmore, the Tri-National Tornado Training Establishment, maintained a level of international co-operation beyond the production stage.
The Tornado was used by the Royal Air Force (RAF), Italian Air Force and RSAF during the 1991 Gulf War, in which the Tornado conducted many low-altitude penetrating strike missions.
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Good day sir I was wondering if you will cover the buccaneer jet, I read alot of Tom Clancy and just want to know more also will you ever cover weird and quirky vehicles that were in service like the Atomic Anny Nuclear Cannon, I think it was called the M-51 Atomic cannon
It is a beautiful plane but is more "masculine" than the classic beauty of the F16. It is menacing with it's sharp lines and enormous tail-fin.
There's a minus side to using radar for terrain following guidance. It means the Tornado is broadcasting in the radar bands which makes it easily to target with a harm missile.
Dear mat, what is this background music you are using in your videos? i can hear it at 6:45 for example. please i have to know! keep up the good work. like them videos!!!
Hoehner Tim except for the fact that a harm missile is meant to take out stationary SAM sites not aircraft that are moving at more than Mach 1
It's low level agility and speed are still unbeaten. The Tornado can close in on an enemy at low level that would promote structural failure in any other aircraft. Extremely robust structure.
Jonny its amazing :P
it flies so low that the thrust probably promotes structural failure in any buildings around as well
Even Mig 27, you sure?
Even Mig 27.
reminds me of the Tomcat
This and the Tomcat are my favorite looking jets ever. Love the swept wings
I’m guessing also the inlets?
Same here. Both very aggressive-looking aircraft. Both did the biz.
@@johnelliott7850 Errr no. I appreciate all the hype on here, some of it quite schoolboy, but the Tornado was an excellent example of jack of all trades but master of none. Agility very poor, and radar signature very high. I agree it was a fine looking jet, but let's not be kidding ourselves here.
Its deployment in the Gulf war showed up some very real weakness' in the Airframe / weapon combination. Losses grew to the point where it was taken off tasking.
I take nothing from the operators of this kit, they lack for nothing, but the aircraft itself wad not an outstanding package. Its the usual British penny pinching kit procurement, and the operators of the inevitable lash up trying to hype it up. British is best? Those day long gone I'm afraid, sadly. The sooner we grow up and admit that the sooner our guys will get some decent kit.
@@stephenvince9994 Actually it was fine but it was a generation late.. the high losses during Desert Storm/operation Gamby has to do with the tactic of using it in low level attacks, were even triple A fire got them. Then they changed to high level attack tactics. Variable geometry made maintainace very expensive. But it was the fastest plane at low level. The ADF version was a mistake.. the UK shall had just bought F 15s.
I watched an F-4 and a Tornado take off while we were on a stop over in Germany on our way home from Iraq in 2005...loudest aircraft ever in the NATO inventory
I got a story about these. Back in 2013 when I got to my first base in the USAF in Holloman AFB New Mexico, I wasn't aware that the German Air Force had a training unit with Tornados. I had only been on base for one day when a flight of Tornados took off from the flight line right over my head and scared the crap out of me. This thing is fucking loud! Plus the Germans are crazy.
The sound is like no other aircraft, even at a distance, it sounds like a huge cotton sheet being torn in half. A strange description but when you actually hear it, it makes sense.
Yep. First saw a tornado (a German machine) at Aer Spectacular 88 at the Irish Air Corps Base at Casement Aerodrome, Baldonel in Dublin and holy shit... When it took off it scared the shit out of me but that was nothing compared to the low level high speed pass it performed with the wings swept back.... This thing was LOUD... and I DO mean LOUD.
My dad used to fly these and he said they were awesome
I grew up next to FB-111s of SAC. I understand the love you feel! I saw a Tornado IDS at an Air Base Open House years ago. Beautiful!
During a documentary, it stated that the Tornado was the first non American aircraft that could beat anything the US could throw up against it in terms if low level bombing
A lot of that possibly has to do with the fact that RAF Tornado, Jaguar, Harrier and Buccaneer pilots flew about 50ft. from the ground (mud moving), so were much harder to shoot down by enemy fighters due to ground clutter. it's also one of the fastest aircraft in the world at low level, that's why most of the airfield attacks during the first gulf war were undertaken by RAF Tornados (and Jaguars). I've heard a lot of stories about US pilots being in awe at how low the RAF flew. I also believe that due to the swept wing, it has one of the fastest roll rates of any military aircraft.
The Brits lie their asses off about the specs. For example, in order to push the LIE that the Tornado was the fastest plane at sea level, they compared an entirely clean Tornado to an F-4 Phantom that was outfitted with a drop tank and external stores fitted! In truth, the Tornado is a fine strike/attack aircraft with some fighter/interceptor capability. This sort of thing is not new. Even "documentory" movies from the 1950s go to great lengths to hype British equipment, while downplaying the capabilities of similar allies' forces, or even ignoring the information. For example, I have a video, that was made in England, comparing British and American bombers. The HUGE bomb loads of the British bombers were constantly mentioned, while the (usually superior) payloads of the American bombers were briefly mentioned, or fudged to make them look smaller.
mrnickbig1 Remember, the RAF also had F4s, who cares what they apparently said.
As for British documentaries hyping about British equipment, now you know how everyone else feels when they have to watch American documentaries. Just pure arrogance. But it's fine, you "won the war", apparently 😂
I think our F4s' had Rolls-Royce Spey engines, so they were quite different from the American versions.
No disrespect to the Tornado but the F111 was the king of low level bombing. The F111 was the best strike aircraft overall of the late/post cold war era. Just look up it's Gulf War combat statistics if you don't believe me. Responsible for 80% of all laser guided munitions, 1500 tanks etc. Not that many served in the conflict either.
Hi i'm italian and i talked with a lot of soldiers and some of them were veterans and i'm sure they agree with me saying, we are proud too and we love it for his work
Tornado and Hornet have to be my two favorite jets. I love how compact looking the Tornado is and yet it is so fast and so powerful, and flying so low to the earth, it would be scary to see it coming on your position at a supersonic speed
I grew up around the Tornado, from the tri-national training facility in RAF Cottesmore to RAF Honington and Marham. Interesting notes: The aircraft were delivered before the Falklands war, but In-flight refueling was not perfected in time so they had to use the Vulcans to attack Port Stanley. They have 27mm Mauser guns (not 25mm as you stated around 5 minutes in). My favorite weapon was the JP233 pods (runway denial) but those are no longer used because of the British signing on to the Land mine treaty (those pods contained lingering mines that were intended to prevent any rebuilding work). During the gulf war in the 1990s upgrades included radar absorbent materials - it was never a "stealth" aircraft but they did manage to reduce its radar cross section. I believe that at one time (maybe still) it held the speed record at sea level, and even if some aircraft can keep up with it - its Terrain following radar and fly by wire made flying lower at speed more practical than any other fighter of its day. An aircraft truly worthy of the 617 squadron insignia.
le recuerdo que las malvinas seran de la argentina de nuevo tarde o temprano.
@@cesaroliveira6864 como de nuevo se nunca lo fueran ???? :)
You forgot brimstone, how can you forget those beastly multi target swarm missiles.
USE CLEANING CASSETTE. Man I love the fact that you still have VHS. At least I'm pretty sure that's what this is. Classic man.
Th recon version did use VHS all type s use Casey tapes used by tnavs
Most definitely one of my favorite Fighters. I've actually briefly been in the cockpit of one as a child!
Looking at this video it suddenly struck me that I’ve spent almost 35 years of my life working on Tornado’s, suddenly I feel very old.
You dont need to apologize for anything my friend. Love the Tornado.
Oh fuck yeah love the tornado, keep it up Mat!
I’ve always liked the Tornado we’ve had them supporting us in exercises in Germany and also in the Middle East thank you for sharing Mat👍
One of the most classiest aircraft I've ever seen.
Very well done, Matsimus!
About those mistakes, I found two:
- 5:47 The cannons are 27 mm Mauser BK-27 cannons, not 25. Whatever. :)
- The IDS is not a bomber, it's a BEAST! :D
This is flying locomotive. Strong and also very agile fighter/bomber. And last but not least it´s nice looking plane. Right after Tomcat.
Even better than the Tomcat, in terms of aesthetics the Tornado is the absolute best.
The Tornado ADV (air defence variant) interceptor aircraft is one of my favourite. The long nose gives it a better look.
Matsimus , I remember the tornado when it first started, and it truly has delivered as advertised, Even here in the U S there were a lot of us that liked it. The Tornado could actually continue to be a viable aircraft with another upgrade well into the future , as a bomber, and maritime strike air craft, It was a very decent interceptor but its real claim to fame is the strike role and massive amount of exploding mail it can haul. and your right it is a bomber and most assuredly it is a great airplane with TWO engines which in low level strike aircraft are always better than one. You cannot get home to fight another day if your single engine is damaged
Europe's greatest jet fighter! That massive rear stabilizer is awesome. Built a Testors model of this jet when I was a kid, and it was bad ass!
Coolest aircraft ever. No compromise!
The Tornado is my favourite aircraft. Especially in the F3 model. It was 'The' aircraft when i was a teenager. Beautiful lines, looks great in the air and oooh the sound of those RB199's....
Hope to see them again this year @ Frisian Flag 2018
Last few years I have the joy to be right underneath one of main training staging areas.
Seeing Tornado's to Typhoons to F15's to even a bunch of Polish MiG 29's flying over low is a joy. And that from my rooftop balcony
Sepecat Jaguar, Blackburn Buccaneer or English Electric Lightning next? :)
I second this. All excellent aircraft!
I second this as well
Three pls
yes please
The plane reminds me of the old Republic F-105 Thunderchief.
Upgrades are the way to go. Thrust vectoring has been researched on older airframes, increased stealth has been tested on older frames, new electronics can be placed on older frames. New more powerful engines can be placed on older frames. New material can be used to construct older frames. There is relatively few advantages that a new airframe design brings.
The tornado strike aircraft was designed from the ground up for low altitude penetration and bombing missions. Sadly these missions have been proven suicidal in modern battle. Upgrading all the engines and avionics would indeed allow it to do its existing mission better, but if that mission profile is no longer planned for, then why bother?
ghostdog688 actually many variants exist for many different roles. That kind of goes along with the point. Isreal uses an air superiority fighter for ground attack missions. Most of that is in the munitions compatibility and electronics...
None Ya Buisness the issue with your idea is finding space for the new electronics and munitions slots.
The only tornado that could take a fighter role was the ADV variant. This one swapped its ground based sensors for a massive radar dish at the front, extending the nose, and altered the fuselage to accomdate the 4 sky flash missiles. In doing these, the aircraft was rendered fundamentally useless for air to ground work.
The ground attack variants, conversely, also lack the equipment (such as compatible hardpoints and an air-air radar) to successfully fight in the air. Those spaces are taken up with the ground based equipment judged necessary to low flying photo recon, attack and suppression of air defenses.
The tornado ADV and GR4, for example are almost completely different aircraft internally.
Lastly, the training involved in successfully converting an attack pilot to a fighter pilot (or vice versa) makes “simply” plugging equipment in and reprogramming the avionics (which by the way, is NOT easy at all) the least of your troubles. You need to retrain squadrons to perform multi role tasks.
That means you get pilots who are “jack of all trades, master of none”.
The air forces of the time that funded Tornado all had enough pilots that they could specialise them and get pilots top of their class in both areas. And they designed two aircraft for the role to complement it.
As for Israel, yes they took an f15 and made it multirole. But so did the USAF. The Americans made the strike Eagle (15E), which is still different to the f15C.
The Israeli variant is different from both. And it was custom built specifically for them.
Those f15’s are not air superiority anymore, they are multirole, and when loaded with bombs etc, an f15C would wreck them. They wouldn’t have the g-loading or power performance due to the drag factor.
The moment that F15I drops its bombs it has a more even playing field with the C, but now it has half the missile carrying capability too.
You see the compromises a multirole capability induces on the situation?
None Ya Buisness as a final aside, adding all those features to an existing airframe adds weight, which affects performance. At a certain point your better off starting from scratch. That’s why the tornado got dropped and replaced with the eurofighter, which out does the ADV variant in every way.
Going by your logic, eh should have stuck with heavily upgraded Sopwith Camels.
ghostdog688 New electronics would be placed where the old electronics existed. As you mentioned the fuselage can be modified if needed. The ADV and GR4 are almost completely different inside..? That's kind of the point, you can have a new plane with the same airframe. Nobody was saying change the role of a unit/squadron or making an air-superiority fighter a multi-role fighter.
Adding all those features doesn't necessarily add weight, many modern engines are lighter and produce more thrust, many new construction materials are lighter and stronger, and byte per byte electronics are lighter and more compact than their similar older worse performing counterparts.
Yes some common sense applies, at some point a new airframe makes sense. Did the F-15 Streak break apart… nope, probably can be pushed faster and harder. Did the Active rip itself apart… nope. The airframe is solid and I believe there is good reason Israel wanted the Silent before being pushed into the 35. South Korea should have stuck with the stealth Eagle also.
It is not my logic to be irrational. I do agree with the backwards CAS support by the US in using prop jobbers to aid the A-10, increased loiter time, slow enough to ID, cold enough for many missiles to have a hard time locking on… and all possible because of advanced electronics on old frames, but a Sopwith Camel, really?
Had a couple training up here some days ago (Italy) truly a sexy machine
I know this is an old video, but it's the first time I have seen it. I spent 22 years in the RAF, the last 10 years on the GR1. From my first day on that A/C (1983)I always felt it was what I had been waiting for, the technology was far in advance of the other types I had previously worked on. I learned it well during the practice for what we all feared would happen in Europe thankfully it didn't happen. But to do it for real in the first Gulf war with such a magnificent A/C as for me the icing on the cake. Now part of the past, the same as my time at the sharp end, but oh what great times we had together!
I love the Tornado, she is beautiful.
Got to do the harrier now.
This is one sexy beast! Will be a sad day when these are fully retired. It will just be the Typhoons and F35s
And now Tempest! After the short span of 17 YEARS
I don't think anyone could be insulted by your commentary as I notice you are always very respectful of other nations and their militaries. ☺
I'm getting chills just watching the footage...
Gorgeous jet in the IDS variant. Seeing them do low level high speed runs through the English countryside in the 80s, was a sight to remember. :)
I will never forget the first time i felt a Tornado starting with afterburners on, my whole body was rattling and i couldnt hear myself thinking anymore. I served in the squadrons infantry detachment and our PT area was about 100m away from the runway.
Worked on them in 1980 through to 91, lovely old Jet. Sad to see her gone to museums. \
Cheers for the Video !
Cool video series Matsimus! My favourite jet fighter I was in college during the first Desert Storm. I hand drew a pencil drawing of 2 Tornados coming out of a mountain valley with a wooden sign that said "Tornado Alley" on it complete with bullet holes. It looked really cool (If I say so myself) unfortunately I can't find it in all my stuff. :( Anyway, great video.
A great insight into the Tornado!
The Tornado definitely is the best sounding planes on take off. It’s like thunder!
My Dad worked on these in Lancashire from 1975 > beautiful plane from the 1970's. I stand corrected if i'm out here but they cancelled the F15 to do the low level flight runs especially at night a the Tornados and Jaguars had it perfected. Great video thanks.
I love the Tornado, when I was a kid I got to sit in the back seat of a GR.1 and it fired my imagination and I've been a plane nut ever since. The F.3 fighter version of the Tornado was actually quite an impressive plane and a totally different animal to the attack version. It was longer and due to its fighter-bomber basis had incredible range and loiter time on patrols, not to mention being extremely fast. Almost as fast as the famous English-Electric Lightning. One of the really cool things about the F.3 was its 'Foxhunter' radar suite which via data link was capable of extending and updating the radar of the AWACS aircraft directing the planes from way back in real time. The F.3 was only ever meant as a stop gap until the Eurofighter Typhoon became available. Those planes must have incredible electronics suites to be able to adequately replace the Tornado. There is a reason most of the Typhoon's technology is still classified.
When I was about 6 yrs old my dad bought me a model of this plane. Ah, good memories, thank you Mat! :)
Same by Italeri Esci in 1:72 scale
I live in western Germany just near a German airfield (Büchel) and two American airfields (Spangdahlem and Ramstein. I love having Tornados, F16, and sometimes F22 flying over my head everyday several times. Just looking up in the sky seeing and hearing them at low altitude and fast speeds is one of the best feelings you can get!
Loving the Tonka but the Jag makes my day...
Still fond memories looking down on Tornadoes doing the Mach loop in Snowdonia. Now where are those photos?
Man, that's beautiful.
Great video. Many thanks for making it. I worked on GR1 in Germany and the UK. Lovely to see my old Sqn (14 Sqn) on your video. Those big ol' engines do make a lovely noise :-)
12:55 Just a small correction, the Tornado F3 was never an air-superiority fighter, it was an interceptor, and when the radar and engine issues were finally sorted (towards the end of its service life), it was a very capable interceptor. My brother in law used to be in the RAF, it was his job to maintain and service the engines. One thing that he told me (which suprised me) was that Tornado wasn't certified to fly supersonic whilst carrying drop tanks, so they'd have to be jettisoned before doing so.
Good Video mate, I wouldn't want to be on the wrong side of those cluster bomb presents...
Danny Heywood the RAF don't use cluster munitions anymore. The UK signed up to the ban
I've not heard about that until you just said. I bet the company that designed the CBU-105 is a bit annoyed as it looked like it took a few years to get that to work properly.
Beautiful, just beautiful !
One of my favourite aircraft, woo! Bring sweep wing BACK!
About Damn time u made a video on this THICC beauty
Love this jet , I live just down the road from RAF leeming and used to go and watch them . A shame they have gone now and didn't get replaced by typhoons but we still get a vist from all type's of jets . I do miss the low level at night when you could see the tornados afterburners for miles . Really miss them 😢 .
So many comments....
well here is my story with the Tornado ECR.
I was a drafty in Germany 99/00 . And after my "Grundausbildung" I somehow got stationed to the one squadron at my time in germany, that had very actual combat experience. But nether the less i was just a pencil pusher for all my time after basic training. Still, i had the chance to talk and live with people who conducted combat or supported combat missions.
"Flying Monsters - JaBoG 322"
I was 19 and and quiet impressed by the atmosphere. The combat role they had ended more than half a year before i became a part of their environment, but i could feel their passion and resolve, hardened by experience. And there was one thing, of many others, that stuck within my mind what I heard from the actual pilots. The Tornado ECR, in the Conflict of 1999 in Kosovo, had a crucial role for the success of the whole campaign. i was told, that nearly every bomber mission that was conducted in this conflict had to wait, until the german Tornado ECRs, at that time, gave the clearance, by flying over the designated bombing area before. At that time, the special configuration of some of the german Tornade ECRs which were the only Fighter planes participating in this conflict, which could CounterStrike the russian SAMs of the Serbian Military Forces. Most of the time not by a HardKill but a SoftKill. Which means:
HardKill - destroy the enemy by physical destruction.
SoftKill - hinder the enemy to deploy countermeasures.
German Tornade ECRs at that time had the equipment to detected enemy radar, locate the source and then send Counter Radar Ordenances. The difficult part of their job was this: a GER tornado ECR had at most 4 of this counter radar missiles plus 2 sidewider Air to Air missiles for self defenses. The serbs had a lot of modern russian SAM and a few hidden MiG 24 in reserve, which had still not yet been destroyed and were superior in air to air combat. So for every NATO Bomber mission, most of the time conducted by the USAF, the german Tornado ECR flew counter SAM missions.
not even 30 tornado ecr, the only one capable of CounterStrike russian SAMs (at that time modern), had to conduct counter missions
for EVERY nato bomber mission
in 99 in the kosovo campaign. And little me, just came a few months after all this. I got the heat from other pilots, pro soldiers but also from other drafties, who started to serve just some months before me.
drafties from germany were essential for the bomber campaign in kosovo 99. because they sorted out timeslots for flights, intelligence assessment and, at least, bomber routes. at most only 2 tornado ecr could plow the way before the bombers and if SAMs got active, the 2 tornados could at most shut down 4 - 8 SAMs physically. so drafties of germany assessed intel, calculated and drew the bomber routes of Nato and their comrades in the TornadoECR wing. But the Serbian military forces had dozens of these deadly SAMs. and they learned very fast how to use them most effeciently by only turning the search radar on, when the there was a visual or audible threat transmitted. So the SoftKill took the role of the main protagonist for the Tornado ECR. There was a difference of approximately 5-10 seconds. Russian SAMs needed 40s to lock on target and fire a missile. German Tornado ECR needed roughly 30s to lock on and counterfire a missile to the radar source. And the Russian SAM tech could tell the operator, that they were counter targeted within 35s. And after trial by fire, the serbians knew they had a window of 5 seconds after they had started to radar a target. If the german tornado ecr were there, they would blow them up in oblivion, if they had still the radar up after 35s. so the SAM crews waited for at least 30 to 35s, for the ECR-alarm to not go of.
So it was like this, the Serbians with the russian SAMs activated their search radar after their outposts warned them of enemy planes incoming. then the german TornadoECR picked up their radar and triangulated their origin to deploy counter missiles. this CounterRadar was picked up by the serbian SAM crew. Then there was the 5s Window for both sides. who deploys deadly force first, but with the certain deadly counter force at hand ... if you think about it, its a chicken race against each other.
The Moment Serbian SAM Techs discovered counter radar from german TornadoECR they shut down their own radar to evade destruction.Therefore the shutdown of enemy SAM radar before firing a missile is counted as a Soft-Kill.
And german TornadoECR did that mission for every nato bombing. they had to do, because the russian SAMs were that good. And the goal of the serbians was not to win, but to present a fallen enemy soldier in public. because the Kosovo-Compaign was at heart a bomber-compaign, it meant that the shot down of only 1 "bomber pilot" would be a win for the serbian government. Which means for german tornado ECR squadrons, to be the perfect goalkeeper 2 to 3 times a days (or even more) for 90 days. 90 days.
but every German Tornado had at most 4 of these counter-missiles, and regularly only 2 of such, because of ammunition shortage. these special missiles with high precession were quite hard to come by. that is what i was told.
The pilots, had to calculate, every time their system told them they were hit by enemy radar, when was the right time to counterfire. And their window of action was only 5 to at most 10 seconds at all. One WSO (WaffenSystemOfficier/WeaponSystemOfficier) told me, that on one of their flights got hit 23 times by enemy SAM radar, but the norm for most of their missions would be around 8-10 radar hits. everey time followed immediatly by a crucial decision.
most of the time they had only 2 or 4 of these missiles, and long long routes from piacenca/italy over the adria through enemy territory. which brings us back to bomber routes and intelligence assessment, aided by german drafties. They were very important for this campaign. essential even. but the conduct of the time did not allow to give drafties in germany the recognition they deserved. it was not even in the regularities, that drafties get medals. there was no rule for that. But the tornado pilots themselves applauded them for their effort. I was there, when german drafties got the highest "recommandation" they could get, for their incredible efforts. again, they could not give them medals, because there was no rule for that. those drafties exceeded expectations by miles.
Well, that is my story i could receive first hand from my time of service in the german air force.
Panavia Tornado seems like a mix between an F-14 and an F-16. Amazing aircraft.
One of my favourite aircraft!
I've always been intrigued by this unique jet. Great video Matsimus
Am a Helio guy, but the Tornado , F16, Mig21, and F111, have always been my top 4 jets. The design of the Tornado, it's abilities, and how it manuvers is awe inspiring. Great video, and love your work. Keep it up and glad I subscribed..
What a beautiful aircraft and going to miss it! Used to live in UK, went to airshows every year with my Father and was always a performer. One of my most beloved aircraft and my other is the Blackburn Buccaneer. Hope you make a video about the Buccaneer in the near future! Forgot to mention the history about the TSR2 and some of the technology went into the Tornado.
I love this bird. Be a sad day when they retire her. I personally would have put this in a video along the other variable geometry aircraft. F14, F111, perhaps even the big Lancer...
No mistakes, you're right. It was a phenomenal aircraft with service to be proud of. Makes loosing the TSR1 to the Bucaneer and the F-111 worthwhile :)
I just remembered I had this as a toy when I was a kid, so cool to learn about it now
The Norfolk Landshark :) Great plane , I loved seeing these fly at RIAT airshows
What a beast . Even impressive at air shows .
I loved seeing video tapes of the planes in GW 1 , they were screaming 25-50feet off the runways dropping cluster munitions , those pilots had steel balls .
M TODD 6 Tornados were shot down during Desert Storm. The attacks on the Iraqi airfields were some of the most dangerous missions.
Richard Hoffmann exactly, they had fairly modern ground-to-air defences and those planes were flying VERY low, I doubt other aircraft could've done the same missions the same way without losses
The Tornado is my all time favourite aircraft - I also remember seeing them flying as a kid and being awed by it. I even built Airfix models of them! :D
The JP233 runway denial weapon system which was used in the 1991 Gulf War was removed from the weapons inventory when Britain signed up to the Ottowa Convention on landmines, as it contained antipersonnel mines as well as the runway cratering bombs.
Richard Hoffmann
The JP233 was a silly weapon that put the aircraft and crew in unnecessary risk. An airfield does not move so would have been better targeted by missiles. The Tornado is better at striking mobile targets.
During the Cold War it was the weapon they designed to take out East German airfields. They also trained to use unguided 1000 pound bombs delivered by a loft attack. I don't know why during the Gulf War Tomahawks were not targeted at the Iraqi Air Force runways. I suspect it was because they didn't have the specialised dual warhead that the runway cratering bomb carried by the JP233, that made the runways much harder to repair.
when i lived in Swanage we had two Tornado's fly through the valley as i walked to school i was eye level with the pilots and could see their helmets.
Still my favorite plane it is a beauty. And was the reason i tried so hard to get into the RAF. Sadly my spine meant they laughed me out of the medical office. ;)
Thumbs up for this powerful bomber. You may have forgotten to add information about the special feature "thrust reverse". Set up like an airliner. No paracute for breaking. No special infrastructure required on the airport. Just fuel and some oil and you can go to a wourld (de)tour with that plane. You won't believe where we picked up a Tornado which have become a little "kaputt" during a visit.
The Tornao is going to stay in german service for a lot longer. There just isn't a good replacement for it at the moment.
I thought it's s British plane 🤔
@@vincegedeon6583 british, german and italian
@@vincegedeon6583 lol why is it that when the UK collaborates in the making of a vehicle everyone thinks that the machine is just british (I'm looking at you Tempest project)
I would had never guessed it.... Lucky for us, you written it in the header...
After the Tomcat and Phantom, the Tornado was my most favorite cold war aircraft. My large display cas has an entire shelf devoted to 1/48 sca'e Tornadoes.
A friend of mine was on ground crew for them in the first gulf war, he said other nations where amazed at its ability to get to and use the JP233 on airfields.
Living in north Yorkshire i got to hear many tornadoes long before i saw them two tornadoes flying at you is a sight to see
I agree with all you said. I also like it very much and I'm proud that Italy had a role in its development.
What a wonderfull Plane, even after al this Years. It was the Highlight on a Vacaction back then, seeing one of this Beasts thundering barely 20 meter over the ground over the rine river!
Thanks for all your videos man
Tornado, F-111, and su-24 were jewels in the cold war, each with the country's own aesthetic.
Probably flown more combat missions and dropped more ordinance than any other plane around today.
This plane bossed the 90's.
nice words for this machine made in Europe in a latest cold war. A milestone for today cooperation for builds EFA. I'm Italian and i'm proud too, We absolutely need it in DCS...
Agreed it has that macho looking aircraft, very combat capable. Hate to see them retire just like the "Tomcat" where I was a part of in the manufacturing
These were a pretty common sight during my childhood in germany -
And little me really loved them because you could take a pretty close look to them passing by low and slow - in hindsight I have no memory of seeing one fly so high that I could not see what its load was even once😄
In Germany, in 2011 they started to dismantle the aircraft because the army became a volunteer one.
She's a beautiful plane indeed. I built a scale model once with the RSAF camo skin, which after the German Tiger skin is my favorite paint scheme. I even saw the RSAF Tornado fly overhead as she was taking off out of Dammam once and all I could think was "BEAST!!"
Just one thing, the Tornado GR1 was equipped with 27mm Mauser cannons. When it had the mid life update to GR4 specification one of the cannons was removed.
This thing is still in my top 3 favourite aircraft to this day, under the harrier but above the osprey
The Tornado is one of my favorites. Good video. Perhaps you could do a more in depth video, or a comparison of the Tornado vs F-111, or something.
Both of them are awesome aircraft!
The Tornado is the sexiest swing wing ever built.
I guess your opinion is pretty much on the mark with Tornado being best in the ground attack role. The ECR version performed very successful in Yugoslavia 1999 as well. Whenever a ground radar spotted a Tornado, that was seconds before this radar ceased to be. It was an F-117 that was shot down, no Tornados were lost there. The reconnaissance version proved its worth as well. In 1995, Bundesluftwaffe made a reconnaissance out of the flood of river Rhine to provide data to scientists and officials about what areas were flooded at what river levels. Every day, all of the river was photographed several times from its source at lake Bodensee in Schaffhausen, Germany to Rotterdam/Netherlands. Each photographing run took them some 90 minutes, if I remember right. Well over 1000 kilometres of landscape in 1½ hours!
I grew up reading a single copy of a plane magazine and featured inside it was this beautiful aircraft...
Ok yes, I am American, but this is my second most favorite aircraft. My personal favorite is the F-15 (exculding 5th gen). The Tornado rocks both capabilities and looks.
Tordnado is one of my favorite aircrafts...and its flight performance is amazing.I think eurofighter is not a good enough successor nor can it succeeded in all of its roles and for all those conditions.I am sad that Tornado did not get more love in maintenance in recent years.
Why not?
@@owenevans83 Like we have seen even in recent wars,from Syria to Armenia and Ukraine,fast low flying aircraft can still do quite a lot of damage.OR in case of Syria,due to heavy SAM defense and powerful radars(plus help from Russians),Israel avoided getting into Syrian territory.After loss of at least 2 fighters and few damaged(including F-35...oh,sorry,that was a bird strike during a mission over it and just coincided with Syrian air defense announcing it hit some stealth aircraft ),using tactics of flying low helped them a lot to avoid being detected and fire their missiles from unexpected places or even go at their border and fire it from there(in some cases,even using guided bombs,as they hit some positions at literally border positions). Almost all attacks from 2014-15 onwards were done like that.This confused the enemy,as well as gave them far less time to counter attack.Adding swarms of drones(actually mostly used to confuse Syrian air defense and did less damage in Syria than what we saw in Ukraine or Armenia) to it and EW,made quite a show.
Thou of course,it still requires a good intelligence ,training and planning,of which all the major NATO powers can brag about(not that I am fan,but it is the truth non the less).Eurofighter is not meant to fly like that and it is a disadvantage,not mention that variable geometry wing design eases a lot landing and requires a shorter runway(oh,not to mention that Tornado had quite the tough landing gear).
Thou I realize why there are no new designs like that,as variable geometry design requires addition maintenance,it is sad that they did not use the existing ones to its full potential when they can still be of great use.
Man look at that vert stab..!
The Tornado Air Defence Varient(F3) was built as a long range interceptor, not an air superiority fighter. It's primary mission was to shoot down long range Soviet bombers far away over the North Sea
Great footage of the JP233 airfield denial pod there, probably the most impressive weapon I've ever seen.
For me, the best fast jet of all time. Combat proven for decades. The f3 was a good fighter but you're right, for the most part the tornado was a ground attack aircraft and a very successful one at that. I for one will be very sad to see her go. The jet of my youth and I wanted to fly one so badly as a boy but breaking both my arms in the beginning of last year at high school ment no exams and no A levels 😕☹. So it remained a dream for me. I just hope they will display them more in the air at airshows, fond memories at airshows across the country including fairford over the years, where I stood in awe at the tonkas doing their displays but sadly this year at fairford we only got to see her once and that was just a fly past with the f35 ☹ .
Such a beautiful aircraft, If you are interested in some firsthand accounts of flying it I would recommend picking up 'Pablo's War' - An account of the gulf war by RAF Squadron Leader Pablo Mason