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Voodoo you do

Using a No.31 Squadron call-sign, 'Voodoo 22', aka Royal Air Force Panavia Tornado GR.4 ZG779/136 turns downwind in RAF Marham's circuit prior to landing after a sortie out West

 

With only a couple of years to go until their retirement, the GR.4 version of the 1980's MRCA (Multi-Role Combat Aircraft) or 'Tonka' as it became known has been active in the two Gulf Wars and more and are currently deployed from Cyprus against the Forces of evil which regularly blight our way of life.

 

The Ground Attack (GR) versions have outlived the Air Defence Variant derivative, the F.2/F.3 ADV's and will be replaced by the F-35 Lightning II, a stealthier based single-seat, single-engined fighter built in the US by Lockheed-Martin with input from various other entities including UK based BAE Systems.

 

These long-awaited F-35's which will equip both the RAF and the Navy's Fleet Air Arm - the latter aboard our two new Aircraft Carriers coming into service 'soon'.

 

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Uploaded on May 31, 2017
Taken on May 24, 2017