@Moravcik 25 wow ~ your last comment blew me away! so cool :)

@Moravcik 25 150 feet was quite high, I have a friend who was a former Tornado back seater before he moved up to the front seat. He said that over Iraq, they had them down to 50 feet quite regularly. He also said that their Tornado's would pair up and 'attack' US naval shipping in exercises. One Tornado would be the bomber and the other would be the 'missile'. They'd fly toward the battle group at low level and try to get past the USN fighter patrols, then at a certain range, the bomber would peel off and try to get away while the 'missile' Tornado would open the taps and home in on one of the ships in the group at wave top height. He said it was a good exercise for all concerned but he wouldn't say whether they 'hit' any of the target ships. What he did say was he was startled at how quickly the big American carriers & other ships could turn. They turn into any attack to minimise their radar signature & limit any damage they might take.

@Moravcik 25 I agree mate! There's something special about the Tornado, when they go by it's like it's not so much passing through the air, it sounds more like it's tearing it apart with that hollow sounding howl. I live up in Shetland, it was quite common to see them training out in the rural valleys and voes. I'll miss them! I think my last £20 would go on getting the last Vulcan, XH558, back in the sky. Amazing old plane!

Grammer.

No! I doubt it will even outlast the few Typhoons, we are voluntarily disarming our selves of our best kit

No i can't see the crappy F35's lasting very long, they will probably get hacked by some kid sat at home board lol, all this digital nonsense!

I will have my Live Radar running tomorrow so you can track them, hope you are them

apparently is the Eurofighter is meant to be taking over the role

Well yes that is the subject of the video you just watched

Scrapped Duxford has two tornadoes at museum

@@adamleewicks8529 Have the air-frames reached their max-worthiness ?

@@adamleewicks8529 they can scrap one into my back garden if they want to

To soon? It's 40 years old! Becoming more and more expensive to maintain, and we have the incredible Typhoon And the F35B being delivered, one of the most potent fighter combinations in the world.

We really are not, we are still a global power, 2nd only to USA in capability.

Tornado airframes are at the end of their lifespan. They would need to purchase brand new airframes. And the cost to remake them with the tooling would just be too much and considering the tornadoes age it makes more sense to have the newer f35. However, we do need more kit and people. That I do agree with. Sad to see the tornadoes go though, left Marham a couple of months ago so saw them all the time.

@@robertblay9179 Do you know the French Air Force and the French Navy ? French nuclear weapons ?

The issue isn't that Tornado is being taken out of service (they're old and they never received a proper radar or engine update to reflect the shift from low level dumb-bombing to medium level smart-bombing), the issue is that we aren't replacing them with a platform with similar range/payload capability. Typhoon is not apparently receiving the conformal fuel tanks (Tranche 3 has the plumbing for them but development appears to have halted on the CFTs) and we aren't buying the F-35A to replace Tornado alongside the shorter-ranged F-35Bs. It all comes back to our long-term under-funding of the military despite the post Cold-War world not bringing the peace and unicorns promised.

@@Akm72 The F35B have greater range than a Tornado because you can launch them from a moving ship!