Keith W wrote:
"Iain Rae" wrote in message
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Brian Sharrock wrote:

Why restrict a reinforcement to (Tornado)F3's?

I'm not, but without doing the sums I'm guessing they could get there
quickest and there would already be supplies and technicians there to
service them.

I don't know if they have weapons or spares chached for the GR4 or
Jaguar but I'd have thought they'd have based a flight of them there if
there was.


Jaguar is being phased out of service but there is considerable commonality
between Tornado GR4 an F3, I doubt technical problems or spares would
be a problem.

The avionic suites are considerably different, they use different
versions of the RB199 and the F3's fuselage is about a meter and a half
longer than the GR4's. The only common armament is the mauser cannon(s)
and ALARM. I'd have thought that there's enough of a difference to make
the ground crew's lives interesting at the best of times.