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Telephone: +44 (0)1908 270400, Fax: +44 (0)1908 270614, Email: [email protected]Warpaint series No.113 £16.00The Tornado F.3 spent just over twenty-three years in frontline operational service with the Royal Air Force compared
to a similar period for air-defence Phantoms, and twenty-eight years for the Lightning. While every operational
Tornado F.3 unit bar 25 Squadron had been operating one of those aircraft types before transitioning to the F.3 only
29 (as OCU) and 11 Squadrons along with 1435 Flight would move forward from Tornado onto the
Eurofighter Typhoon. And of them only the latter transitioned directly without a break in service.
Its entry-to-service was not, just like many other types before and since, particularly smooth
especially with regard to its Foxhunter radar, however once the initial problems were resolved it
went on to possess and deliver an outstanding BVR CAP capability. Itwent on to possess and deliver an outstanding BVR CAP capability. Itwent on to possess and deliver an outstanding BVR CAP capability. It was not and was never was not and was never
intended to be one of the ‘dogfighters’ it was often erroneously compared with, and through the
design compromise with the IDS variants was undeniably more suited to a low/mid-level
environment. Despite this and with the ever growing constraints on RAF budgets and
concomitant growing demands on the Tornado F.3 throughout its service, the skills and
dedication of its air and ground crews along with the expertise of the British aviation industry
ensured that the aircraft more than excelled in all that was asked of it. Perhaps most tellingly the
Tornado F.3/ADV was taken into combat by all three operators, with the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia over Iraq and
by the United Kingdom and Italy over the Balkans. In both theatres the opposing regimes had proven records of manipulating
propaganda and were forever alert to exploit any imagined weakness as some armchair Air Marshals would have had the F.3/ADV to
be. Yet while all three operators faced threats from ground defences, on not one occasion did any hostile force attempt get close
enough to expose itself to the real and present threat posed by the Tornado F.3 ADV. This book is written by Des Brennan and
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