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Spectacular image!

That's a bad-ass looking airplane!

So. Not a Cessna Tweet.

A great shot of a Panavia GmbH Tornado. Judging from the shark’s mouth it’s an RAF aircraft. It was a rugged attack plane meant to survive the rigors of a potential Cold War encounter with the Soviet Union, in which Tornados could find themselves skimming the treetops of German forests at the height of a nuclear war, ready to unleash its rage onto Soviet ground targets. The Tornado included a navigation/attack Doppler radar kit that simultaneously scans for targets and conducts fully automated terrain-following for low-level flight. Despite the RAF deploying an interceptor variant designed to patrol the North Sea against Soviet bombers, it was never designed to be a dogfighter and was comparatively difficult to turn. Despite being over four decades old and surrounded by younger, faster and sleeker models, a series of upgrades have enabled the Tornado to stay on the front lines as a formidable and valued member of Nato’s arsenal.

The RAF’s GR.4 upgrade provided the Tornado with better electronics and avionics making it supremely suited to its new found role as a guided missile carrier.

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