RAF Tornado Units in Combat 1992-2019
RAF Tornado Units in Combat 1992-2019
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Author(s): Napier, Michael
ISBN No.: 9781472850249
Pages: 96
Year: 202201
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 27.81
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

(Subject to Confirmation) Chapter 1 Iraq Operations Jural / Southern Watch / Resinate South Tornado GR 1 operations enforcing the NFZ in southern Iraq from 1992 - including laser-guided kinetic events in 1993 and 1998-2003 (including Operation Desert Fox , three days of bombing in December 1998); Operations Warden / Northern Watch / Resinate North over northern Iraq 1995-2003. Tornado F 3 involvement from 1999. Chapter 2 Bosnia Operation Deny Flight over Bosnia-Herzegovina, with Tornado F 3 operations enforcing NFZ over the Balkans 1993-99. Combat Air Patrols and defensive counter-air operations throughout the period. Chapter 3 Kosovo Operation Engadine , Tornado GR 1 offensive operations against Serbian military installations from RAF Brüggen (and later Sigonella) March-May 1999. Chapter 4 Iraq Operation Telic , second Gulf War (March-April 2003). Tornado GR 4 operations from Kuwait and Tornado F 3 operations from Saudi Arabia. Post-war operations, urban Close Air Support (CAS) missions, 2003-09.


First use of Storm Shadow missile. Coincident F 3 tasking with Baltic Air defence (2004) and also Falklands commitment. Chapter 5 Libya Operation Ellamy (March-October 2011). Tornado GR 4 operations in NFZ over Libya, based at Marham and Gioia del Colle. Operations against military installations and armoured vehicle concentrations. Chapter 6 Afghanistan Operation Herrick Tornado GR 4 missions from Kandahar 2009-2014. Many CAS and surveillance ops, use of Brimstone missile. Chapter 7 Iraq and Syria Operation Shader against ISIL terrorists 2014-19, Tornado GR 4 from Akrotiri, most sorties involve dropping ordnance.



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