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Happy 25 th Birthday 'Tornado'
« on: January 10, 2007, 04:43:11 PM »
January 6th 1982 saw the first of more than 220 Tornados enter service with the RAF; making IX Squadron (then based at RAF Honington in Suffolk) the first operational Tornado GR1 squadron.

The Tornado was produced by a consortium of aerospace industries in the United Kingdom , Germany and Italy and on entering service replaced a number of older RAF aircraft including the Buccaneer and Vulcan as low-level attack aircraft.

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