RAF Italijaske letalske sile Nemške letalske sile Savdske letalske sile
Izdelovan
1979–1998
Število izdelanih
992
Različice
Panavia Tornado ADV
Zapri
RAF Tornado v operaciji Operation Iraqi FreedomVeč Tornadov v Iraku
Deleži v podjetju Panavia Tornado GmbH so: 42,5% nemški EADS Deutschland GmbH, 42,5% britanski BAE Systems plc in 15% italijanski Alenia Aeronautica. Prvič je poletel 14. avgusta 1974 in vstopil v uporabo 1979–1980. Tornado je kot večnamensko letalo nadomestil več različnih tipov letal. Edini izvozni uporabnik je bila Savdska Arabija. Skupaj so zgradili 992 letal.
Med Zalivsko vojno leta 1991 so ga uporabljali Britanci in Italijani, kot penetrator na nizkih višinah in pri visoki hitrosti. Pozneje so ga uporabljali v konfliktih na območju bivše Jugoslavije, v Libiji, Afganistanu in Jemnu.
V 1960 so letalski konstruktorji študirali o gibljivih krilih, ki bi imeli hkrati dobro manevrirnost z razprtimi krili in visoko hitrost z zloženimi. Združeno kraljestov je preklicalo TSR-2 in F-111K in iskalo zamenjavo za Avro Vulcan in Blackburn Buccaneer. Britanija in Francija sta začeli s programom AFVG (Anglo French Variable Geometry) leta 1965, pozneje 1967 je Francija odstopila in ravzila svoja letala. [1] Britanija pa je nadaljevala in iskala mednarodne partnerje.
Tehnične specifikacije(Tornado GR4)
Posadka: 2
Dolžina: 16,72 m (54 ft 10 in)
Razpon kril: 13,91 m z 25° nklono, 8,60 m z 67° naklono (45,6 ft / 28,2 ft)
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