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| 4s | building your own war planes was always |
| 6s | prohibitively expensive but it became |
| 8s | even more difficult after World War II |
| 11s | with Europe being in a state of economic |
| 13s | decline even though Italy France and the |
| 16s | UK were still capable of Designing new |
| 18s | vehicles on their own creating a new |
| 21s | truly modern strike aircraft definitely |
| 23s | required a joint effort across the |
| 25s | continent that's the story of the |
| 27s | panavia tornado multi-roll combat air |
| 30s | craft developed through the combined |
| 32s | efforts of France Germany and a number |
| 35s | of other |
| 38s | countries in the early 1960s the British |
| 41s | were looking for a replacement for the |
| 43s | Aging Hawker Hunter fighter bomber and |
| 45s | the Blackburn Buccaneer a carrier |
| 47s | capable attack aircraft the military was |
| 50s | specifically interested in a plane with |
| 52s | vertical takeoff and Landing |
| 54s | capabilities and a variable sweep Wing |
| 57s | this kind of design would allow the |
| 58s | aircraft to adjust its flying |
| 60s | characteristics right in the air giving |
| 62s | it a great level of tactical flexibility |
| 65s | at that point vicker's Armstrong and |
| 67s | desol were both among a number of |
| 70s | leading Aviation companies that were |
| 71s | developing Technologies in the |
| 77s | field shortly afterwards other countries |
| 80s | and companies joined the initiative as |
| 82s | well in 1969 Germany Britain and Italy |
| 85s | founded panavia aircraft in fact there |
| 88s | were even more Nations that contributed |
| 90s | to the project but the brunt of the work |
| 92s | fell on the UK and Germany as they were |
| 94s | responsible for up to 85% of the work |
| 97s | the program was initially called |
| 99s | multi-roll combat aircraft or mrca the |
| 103s | plan was to develop a single aircraft |
| 105s | that could perform quick strikes on |
| 107s | enemy airfields provide reconnaissance |
| 109s | and also support units on the ground |
| 111s | regardless of the time of day or weather |
| 114s | conditions it also needed to be able to |
| 116s | fight other aircraft although that was |
| 118s | not a priority |
| 122s | the first time a tornado prototype took |
| 124s | to the skies was in |
| 126s | 1974 in the end Engineers opted for a |
| 128s | twin seat multi-roll aircraft with a |
| 131s | variable sweep Wing that could reach the |
| 133s | speed of almost Mach 2 at high altitudes |
| 136s | test pilots rated the prototypes rather |
| 138s | highly and specifically praised them for |
| 141s | their ease of handling it wasn't all |
| 143s | smooth sailing though in order to avoid |
| 145s | future problems Engineers had to |
| 147s | repprofile the engine intakes and no |
| 150s | less than two vehicles were lost when |
| 152s | panavia tested more sophisticated |
| 154s | stability augmentation systems and |
| 162s | autopilots in the end though it was all |
| 165s | worth it in 1979 the aircraft was |
| 168s | finally accepted into service the UK and |
| 171s | Germany were the first to use it |
| 173s | promptly followed by the Italian Air |
| 174s | Force all in all Engineers succeeded on |
| 177s | all fronts the aircraft was astonishing |
| 180s | agile at low altitudes and could |
| 182s | effectively destroy Targets on the |
| 184s | ground with its modern weapons like |
| 186s | Paveway laser guided bombs it could also |
| 189s | give hell to enemy Fighters with |
| 190s | different variants of The Sidewinder |
| 192s | missile and the Mouser revolver Cannon |
| 195s | furthermore the tornado was even capable |
| 197s | of delivering air launched nuclear |
| 202s | weapons as things stand the most |
| 204s | produced variant of the tornado is the |
| 206s | tornado IDs interdictor SL Strike |
| 209s | Fighter bomber tornadoes of this type |
| 212s | were used in the Gulf War Iraq and Syria |
| 215s | with almost zero losses and the planes |
| 217s | that were lost were usually brought down |
| 219s | by friendly fire or mistakes made |
| 221s | outside of combat all in all there were |
| 224s | almost a th000 units made and the final |
| 227s | list of operators also included an |
| 229s | Export customer outside of Europe Saudi |
| 232s | Arabia the UK decommissioned their |
| 234s | tornadoes in 2019 but other operator |
| 237s | countries keep using the panavia tornado |
| 239s | to this very |
| 244s | day in War Thunder the panavia tornado |
| 247s | is waiting for you at ranks seven and 8 |
| 249s | of The Air Tech Tree all in all there |
| 252s | are eight different variants of the |
| 253s | aircraft found across the tech trees of |
| 255s | Italy Britain and Germany some better |
| 258s | suited for air combat and some |
| 260s | specialized in taking care of targets on |
| 262s | the ground what's your favorite variant |
| 265s | of the panavia tornado tell us in the |
| 268s | comments below |
| 271s | [Music] |