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As I wrote earlier, TSR2 did haunt me when I saw the MRCA (Tornado) prototype waddle into the sky at Farnborough. BUT by the 80s it was clear that Tornado had changed the NATO frontline for the better. German Tornados could dominate the Baltic with Kormoran ASMs while their Luftwaffe and RAFG mates pulverised airbases and other stuff in E Europe.ADV Tornado was a bit of an embarassment at first. Blue Circle cement was a major supplier to NATO infrastructure so their reps enjoyed the joke about their product substituting for Foxhunter.AEW Nimrod and Tornado ADV stand as a warning to the paper project fans here who crave all UK solutions to everything.But as is clear from CJG's excellent book the ADV was what the RAF needed on long patrols over murky waters to shoot down Bears etc.F15 and F14 look great in UK colours (any google search throws up loads of models) but they were not the answer at the time.
As I wrote earlier, TSR2 did haunt me when I saw the MRCA (Tornado) prototype waddle into the sky at Farnborough. BUT by the 80s it was clear that Tornado had changed the NATO frontline for the better. German Tornados could dominate the Baltic with Kormoran ASMs while their Luftwaffe and RAFG mates pulverised airbases and other stuff in E Europe.
ADV Tornado was a bit of an embarassment at first. Blue Circle cement was a major supplier to NATO infrastructure so their reps enjoyed the joke about their product substituting for Foxhunter.
AEW Nimrod and Tornado ADV stand as a warning to the paper project fans here who crave all UK solutions to everything.
But as is clear from CJG's excellent book the ADV was what the RAF needed on long patrols over murky waters to shoot down Bears etc.
F15 and F14 look great in UK colours (any google search throws up loads of models) but they were not the answer at the time.
