"Rob van Riel" wrote in message
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Chuck Johnson wrote in message
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tornado bashing snipped
Combat record: Dismal. Gulf War I. Losses incurred attacking third
world air base defended by aging Soviet Air Defense systems.

Precisely. Losses incurred while flying missions that the usually very
confident US F-15E pilots went on record admitting would be virtual
suicide in their super jets, and that they would be scared ****less to
fly if ordered to do so, but which were none the less deemed
necessary. An impossible job for most aircraft, but only a highly
dangerous one in the tornado.

I can't directly counter you other arguments for lack of references to
back me up, but I doubt you'd be interested anyway.

Rob

Actually for reading what the commander of the air war in the Gulf war said,
they were lost because the Brits stuck to flying at Low Alt penitration
when
everyone else had climed upstairs . From what I read it was a failure in
tactics when the brits climed upstairs the losses stoped.