Royal Air Force Panavia Tornado GR.4 / 4A ZA365
Igor Kmet
Violetta Banas
Wojtek Broda
Murmeldeier
Jarek Kalemon
Igor Mikhelevich
Ricardo Hebmüller
Piotr Gryzowski
JACD
Sebastian Wajda
Gerard van Oostrom
Sandor Vamosi
Roman N.
Wojtek Zaremba
Richard Parkhouse
Jetzguy
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Nico Berger
Image ID: 1042885
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Operator: Royal Air Force - ZA365
Aircraft: Panavia - Tornado GR.4 / 4A
Airport: UK - England - Brighton - Shoreham (ESH / EGKA)
Category: Main database
Photo taken on ?-9-1 by flyer1 [Contact]
Camera setting: Canon EOS 7D, 1/800s, f/5.0 at 300mm ISO 100
Photographer's remark
(2.4.2018, 00:10 CET)
All 36 Panavia Tornado GR4s will be decommissioned by March 2019 because of defence cuts. Squadron 12 based at RAF Marham will be the fist to go. No.12 Squadron has been at the forefront of UK operations to defeat [IS]. 001 seen here at the Battle of Britain Airshow EGKA.
1 Jetzguy
(2 April 2018 - 01:14 CET)
Will they be "replaced" by fewer more capable Eurofighter Typhoon jets or just straight
across the board cuts?
2 flyer1
(2 April 2018 - 10:18 CET)
I forgot to say, on the same day that the RAF were celebrating 100 years service the MoD
made public the decommissioning of the GR.4s !!!
3 flyer1
(2 April 2018 - 16:34 CET)
Thanks for your interest Jetzguy. The MoD had planned to decommission the Tornados in 2015
but no replacement aircraft were available. The plan was to keep the Tornados fully in
service until the arrival of the replacement F-35Bs, but the Budget Cuts have been brought
forward so there will be a lengthy gap before the F-35Bs will be ready to go into service.
The MoD budget allows for one unite of F-35Bs only. The RAF are making way for 12 F-35Bs
to operate from RAF Marham and the Queen Elizabeth-class Aircraft Carrier. The Armed
Forces could gain another F-35Bs but said the Armed Forces Equipment plan is
'Unaffordable' In a world where war can break-out daily it does not make sense !
4 flyer1
(2 April 2018 - 17:59 CET)
Apologies should read,"The Armed Forces could gain another 48 F-35Bs".
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