RAF Tornado GR4 – Down Over Iraq – The Dangerous side of being a Fighter Pilot (Video)

 
RAF Tornado GR4 – Down Over Iraq – The Dangerous side of being a fighter pilot

The Dangerous side of being a fighter pilot.
The Royal Air Force’s Panavia Tornado GR.1 was one of the most versatile combat aircraft available to the Coalition forces poised to remove Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi Army from Kuwait. A total force of sixty Tornado GR.1s participated in Operation: Granby, the British contribution to Desert Storm, flying from Tabuk and Dhahran in Saudi Arabia as well as Muharraq in Bahrain. The aircraft were instrumental in helping keep the Iraqi Air Force on the ground thanks to its JP233 munitions dispenser system and flew most of its missions at very low level under the cover of darkness.