Sea Tornado!

[pwagner]

What if the CVA-01 class carriers had gone ahead? My guess is the Royal Navy would have joined in on the MRCA project for a replacement for both the Phantom and Buccaneer, and thus the Sea Tornado was born!

Unlike the dedicated strike and interceptor versions for the RAF, the naval Tornado was expected to perform both roles, and in the end the decision was made to make it a single-seat fighter, utilising the extra space to incorporate all the necessary avionics without having the stretched-nose or the ADV. The Sea Tornado entered service in 1980, and saw it's combat debut during the Falklands conflict of 1982, flying from the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Ann. A total of 36 Sea Tornados were deployed, and quickly established air superiority over the ageing Argentinian air force, shooting down 32 Argentine aircraft in air-to-air combat with only two air-to-air losses, both to Argentine Dagger fighters.

Here is my Sea Tornado c.1982, in all-over Non-Specular Sea Blue, made from a Airfix GR4 kit -  and in formation with it's RAF cousins!

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Paul



Paul

[PR19_Kit]

That looks excellent, and totally off-the-wall too.   

I like the single seat adaption, it works remarkably well.

[MilitaryAircraft101]

Looks the part!!

[GTX]

The single seat is certainly different.

[Taiidantomcat]

I like that! What did you use for the canopy?

[pwagner]

I like that! What did you use for the canopy?

It's a Hornet canopy - I just went through the spares box until I found one that fitted

Paul

[James]

That works really well.

[Cobra]

Awesome Job Three Words:British TOP GUN Hope to see more awesome Work like this! Dan

[RussC]

Great build on the Sea Tornado and a jaw dropping Wow! about your collection of spacecraft / sci-fi 

[Spey_Phantom]

looks good 
ive been working on Sea Tornado's to in 1/144, as part of the airwing for my new carrier.
im gonna convert a Tornado F.3 with naval parts aswell 

i like the color scheme you used, similar to what i had in mind 

[Hman]

oh I like!

[lancer]

Beautiful, certainly looks the part

[Pablo1965]

Really awseome work the Number 718 with single seat is coolest tornado than I´ve ever seen.

[Weaver]

Nice one!

I've always thought the Tornado would make a good carrier aircraft....

[McColm]

Brilliant work.