Panavia Tornado IDS [All Variants] [All Countries] | History - Weapons - Performance - Discussion

Tornado should be 12.7, but it should also get its common subsystems to be competitive.

Yeah, and let’s do it on GER side all the time because they lost the war 80 years ago.
Cmon man, this is getting tiring. Everybody and their dog knows who gets screwed when it comes to balancing on “principle”. We’re waiting for 12 years on balancing on “principle” GER WW2 BRs, but that ain’t gonna happen. So, as it’s pretty obvious, GET TT is treated as a cannon fodder for “Allies” and that’s fine, as long as GJ puts that on the box cover so that everyone understands that prior to creating a WT account.

What

No

What kind of “common subsystems”?

Its just uptalking a garbage plane. Ground Strikers are defined by their wweapon systems. 1000 lb bombs are a thing when mounted on a P-47 to drop it on WW2 tanks. 1000lb’s on a 11.3 plane are super hot garbage. Laser guided bombs are a thing around BR 10 - 10.7 BR. You see some jets using it in the 9-10 bracket with success. GBU on a max BR jet for Ground Forces are also not really good. At max BR you have no change to use this mechanic without getting SAM’ed.

The Tornado’s underutilised. It’s an interdictor not a tank destroyer. Should be used to bomb power plants, factoid, frontline airfields, ammo depots, all the lot.

2 Tornado IDS from Manching (98+59 and 98+60) are heading to Edwards AFB in CA for some testing.
the question is: what are they testing

Hey, US Tornados coming soon?

probably testing a new weapon
if they are then its either a new ARM, Bomb or Cruise Missile

Only time will tell.

the germans supposedly requested information on the AGM-88G AARGM-ER some months ago

https://x.com/Task_Force23/status/1830996926524715211
it was a bomb.
a nuclear bomb
B61-12

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war thunder when?

Would still only give you a “hit”

Ayo, what are these on the inner rails? countermeasure pods?👀👀

More likely some kind of training missile meant to “digitally” simulate shots.

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Probably a type of ACMI pod. Basically they record the aircrafts position and other information for post-flight analysis.

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thank you for ruining my hopes and dreams…day ruined😔

So I seem to remember hearing that the update for the Dragon something with the J20 has flightmodel changes for the Tornadoes.
ANyone got any ideas?

ALso, could they use JDAMS, and could we therefore expect Gaijin to add them to the ASSTA at some point?

The Tornados do have an overhauled FM. Its not perfect, there is some work left to be done (like its a bit too draggy) , but in short. It turns way better at high speed and no longer drops like a rock at low speed. But no longer pulls as many Gs in a sustained pull.

The overall result of this means it should be a lot easier to evade incoming missiles

Ohh sweet that sounds really good! Thanks for the info

So if I understand it correctly, it has a LOT more initial pull but not as much sustained. ANd it didnt pull any sustained G anyway.

And its performance is better at slow speed. But I dont know in what way.

So Tornadoes got more dangerous! Excellent!