RAF Tornado In The Cold War | Documentary |

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The Panavia Tornado GR.1/GR.4 was at the forefront of the Royal Air Force's (RAF) strike capability for over 40 years.

The RAF obtained a total of 228 Tornado IDS (GR) aircraft and was operated by 16 different squadrons and units.

This brilliant RAF Recruiting film portrays four Tornado GR1 aircraft of 9 Squadron as they are ordered to attack a coastal surface-to-air missile site during a fictional between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. The Tornado crews plan the sortie, including the approach route, fuel requirements and the method of attack to be used, while ground crews prepare the aircraft. The crews check and start up their aeroplanes within hardened aircraft shelters before taxiing and taking off; they refuel en-route from an RAF VC-10 tanker before descending to low level and attacking the target with bombs. On the return trip they are engaged by American-built F5 aircraft posing as enemy fighters and, having fought them off, all four Tornadoes land safely at their home base.

This is an excellent fly-on-the-wall look at a type of mission that the RAF Tornado would have undertaken had the Cold War gone 'Hot'!

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