The Panavia Tornado was the first Royal Air Force aircraft to be fully designed for the digital age. Equipped with highly complex automated systems, the type had a remarkable advantage in electronic warfare and could easily jam or deceive enemy defenses.

However, the strike attack aircraft was initially conceived as far back as the 1970s, and it could carry either conventional or nuclear weapons and operate far and wide throughout Europe at an extremely low level.

With such stateoftheart features, the Tornado quickly became one of the most advanced ground attack aircraft of its time and provided the Royal Air Force with a cuttingedge frontliner that was still creating havoc at the turn of the century…



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