RAF Tornado Manual

Since 1986 the multi-role swing-wing Panavia Tornado has been the cornerstone of the RAF’s jet fighter and bomber forces, designed to intercept Cold War Soviet bombers and drop conventional and nuclear weapons on invading Warsaw Pact forces. RAF Tornados have seen action in both Gulf Wars, over Kosovo, and most recently over Afghanistan and Libya. Former RAF Tornado ADV pilot and air-to-air photographer Ian Black gives an ‘insider’ insight into operating, flying and maintaining the air defence and strike versions of the swing-wing jet.

Incepand din 1986, aripa multifunctionala Panavia Tornado a fost piatra de temelie a avioanelor de lupta si bombardiere ale RAF, concepute pentru a intercepta bombardierele sovietice din Razboiul Rece si a arunca arme conventionale si nucleare asupra fortelor invadatoare ale Pactului de la Varsovia. RAF Tornados a vazut actiuni atat in razboaiele din Golf, peste Kosovo, cat si mai recent asupra Afganistanului si Libiei.