The Tornado - RAF's Top 10 Warplanes | Forces TV 

Thank you tornado and you're crews for all your years of service

Sad to see it phased out of RAF service next year but the Tornado is showing its age now, coming into service 1979/80, nearly 40 years ago! The Tornado has definitely proved it's self as a worthy aircraft for the UK, its allies and the RAF in particular.

I must be getting old, tho it was the end of service for the Vulcan, 50sqd was my first operational Vulcan squadron and I remember tornado coming into service, it was brash, modern and loaded with technology, I couldn't wait for my posting onto Tornado, or as I though it would be, My next squadron turned out to be on harrier, then canberra and then tornado, 17f at RAF Bruggen in Germany, surprisingly I finished service life on Buccaneer and Hunters at Lossiemouth when Tornado took over once again, now they are bowing out, it's difficult to believe, I am simply GETTING OLDER...... 😒 Wonderful jet, it did a great job, along with the other great jets I looked after, Vulcan, Harrier, Canberra, Tornado, Buccaneer and the legendary Hunter. All the best British jets (Including tornado, being part of Panavia) its so strange to see even GR4's in museums, it is these moments when I see my jets in museums, I know age is creeping up on me... 😒 So long Tornado, job well done....!!!

Tornado has been such an outstanding fast jet. Pretty much the very best ground attack and strike aircraft the world has seen let alone the RAF. It was designed to take on the might of the Soviet Union and it's Warsaw Pact allies and be the first NATO strike aircraft into battle. As testiment to what the aircrew though of it just listen to the passion in John Nicholl voice. Very rare that you will hear such fulsome praise. To quote a pilot who I was lucky enough to speak to - every time I walk up to it Tornado gives me such a fantastic feeling. An awesome piece of kit. Well done Tornado. Retired far too soon and for the wrong reasons.

Tornado is the king of the skies.

This report does not mention what the Tornado Did in the desert storm in 1991of an important and high-risk bombing in the first air strike Wave against the Iraqi airports and air bases.but i like this video..

The Tonka entered service with TTTE in 1981, and operationally with IX (B) Sqn in 1982. ;-) The GR.1/4 has been a superb machine, shame about the F3, though it came good in the final five years! This jet has served us well though the Cold War, Op Granby 1991, Op Desert Fox 1998, Op Allied Force 1999, Op Telic 2003, Op Herrick 2009, Op Ellamy 2011 and Op Shader 2014. Sadly though as with all types, time has finally caught up with it and retirement looms, I just hope that it goes out with the fanfare it richly deserves.

I loved watching them fly low over the West German countryside when I was stationed there and loved watching them take off during Operation Desert Storm.

My grandad used to work on these at BAe Warton. It's a shame they'll be retired soon :(

A naval version of the tornado would have been amazing! Gr4s and f1/2s

Despite all the modern high tech aircraft at air shows, the Tornado has always been an air show favourite (rightly so). It’s the longest serving aircraft ever in the RAF’S history.

halfway in this video that "Navigator" was one of the RAF Tornado pilots that was interviewed for the BBC doc on The Gulf War. This guy was hit by a SAM ejected, landed, got into a firefight and then became a POW. Amazing to see him still talking on Tornados 20+ years later, still looking good .

Fantastic planes, I grew up in the 90’s, an air show wasn’t an air show without a GR-1 or F-3 and a GR-7, they were the staple of the RAF and of a British air show in the 90’s

Meanest looking best sounding king of the fast and low. We will miss u Tonka! 😣

Love it

Tornado is one of my favourite aircraft 🍺

My favorite jet fighter. F22 and Typhon are cool, too. But I think that jet rocks.

Hi ForcesTV. Great video! And a great series. Please, keep them coming. Maybe a series on top 10 British armored vehicles/tanks one day?

I remember making models of the Panavia Tornado and the F-18 Hornet back in the mid 80's, when they were both still new enough that the model manufacturers only supplied the decals and colour schemes for very early versions. (I think that they were made by Hasegawa or Academy or Fujimi and were very detailed models for the time). It's amazing to think that they are now both considered to be quite old aircraft that will likely soon be consigned to history.

next generation of tornado should be built

Tornado one of the best forever and all the Times!!

It was a good aircraft to work on not just designed to fly but be maintained too

Fortunate enough to see a Tornado flying in formation with a Lancaster and a F 35 at Duxford in 2018

Certainly kicked some ass!!

I want to be an RAF pilot and this would’ve been my dream to fly

Great video. Does anyone know the name of the museum with the old bloke being interviewed?

The jet of my youth! My favourite jet of all time the Tonka 😍😍😎. I will be sad to see the gr4 put to rest the end of the year ☹. I only hope to see them fly more at airshows like fairford. Because sadly this year the only time we got to see one in the air was a fly past with the f35 😕☹

Great fighter typhoons and tornado

How do the drop tanks remain parallel to the fuselage if the wings are changing their angle all the time as it goes from high speed mode to low speed mode?

My top 10: Spitfire Harrier Vulcan Hunter Mosquito Lightning Tornado Vampire Lancaster Canberra

Such a shame it's being retired. It's still more than capable of doing the job.

It's like a 1980s lancaster bomber

which museum is that GR1 at?

It's sad I will miss the tornados my best plane ✈ off all 😥

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I see a Tornado jet, Houthis 💪💪💪say hold my coffee 😁😁😁

It's a shame they retired the Tornado.

Another Jet died due to not upgrading via like like "harrier J jet".. USA updated it's all jet via time...

I hope John Nichols and John Peters get another final flight in the Tornado before they're decommissioned. I still read their story with wonder and admiration.

Everything on fire, everything fine

Shame that John Nichol got it so wrong the first time round......

Perfect tool for regime change missions. lol

Never understood why UK always use twin-engine aircraft... it’s extremely costly to maintain and operate in comparison to single-engines. It would make sense for USAF who doesn’t exactly have budget problems. If you take a good look at UK’s budget and GDPs over the past 5 decades you will find a constant, a steady (with a few bumps) decline in defense spending, as % of the GDP, as % of the total budget, and for some periods even in real terms. All National Defence Reviews have been eminently budgetary papers detailing how the next round of cuts will be implemented.

it ll be in service till 2040

proud of our RAF best in the world trained pilots thankyou

The raf spending so much money on the gr4 upgrades in 2012 are being wasted and the typhoon in a full blown war wouldn’t be able to do a bombing run ikr the tornado did or as good

Can we not give them to New Zealand. ...?

I think the RAF should've bought F-15E Strike Eagles. Like the Tornado but even better! Can do Ground attack very well and air superiority as well. And is set to last into the 2040s

Why RAF didn't use typhoon in Libya or in Syria? Instead of tornadoes ?

It made its name in the first Gulf war by getting shot down a lot until the RAF abandoned low level flying.

Its a shame Saddam caught those boys on the hop. Their safe release later might have saved Saddam from capital punishment, instead the voices of kuwati women and Kurds hung him. Tornado fast and predictable especially slinging big bunker busters. Shame to see it go.

Does the RAF even have 10 war planes?

The RAF should have bought the F15 instead