15 months ago the Tornado F3 Late was added with the 495 Gal “Hindenburg” tanks and ever since, i’ve been waiting for these to be added to all the other Tonkas already in game (especially the 2 added after the F3 Late) but none have come so far.
If these were not in game already, then it wouldnt bother me that they hadnt been added yet and I would fully support other aircraft getting tanks or even additional tanks first, but as they have… on a Tornado… in a fully modeled and functional state… then why have they not been C&Ped over yet? Especially for the 2 other 100% identical Tornado ADV models? (not that I can see any meaningful work for the Tornado IDSs either.)
The Tornados have a very high fuel consumption rate and on the ADVs especially, I find myself RTB’ing in ASB most often due to low fuel and not due to running out of missiles. The extra 30 minutes of flight time would be a decent QoL buff for the F3s, but also would be useful on the Tornado IDSs as well.
In the IDS, I tend to favour the scenic route to avoid the enemy team as much as possible (especially in the GR4 vs Mig-29s and ICEs) with the combat tank, I usually have to do a little fuel management at some point so that Im not super low when landing
In the F3… Depends on the lobby. quiet lobby, i’ll be loitering for ages waiting for trade… My record was 2 full laps of the map without firing a shot before needing to RTB due to Bingo
