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Loadout info

Tornado IDS

Ser. no.Nose artCommentPhotos
    
MM7019  Photo 1 Photo 2 Photo 3
MM7035  Photo 1 Photo 2 Photo 3 Photo 4 Photo 5
MM7050  Photo 1 Photo 2 Photo 3 Photo 4
MM7055  Photo 1 Photo 2 Photo 3 Photo 4 Photo 5 Photo 6
MM7061  Photo 1 Photo 2 Photo 3
MM7067  Photo 1 Photo 2 Photo 3
MM7070  Photo 1 Photo 2 Photo 3 Photo 4
MM7071  Photo 1
MM7073  Photo 1 Photo 2 Photo 3 Photo 4
MM7074 Shot down 01/17/91, crew POW 
MM7075  Photo 1 Photo 2 Photo 3 Photo 4
MM7076  Photo 1 Photo 2 Photo 3 Photo 4 Photo 5 Photo 6
Photo 7
MM7080  Photo 1 Photo 2 Photo 3 Photo 4 Photo 5 Photo 6
Photo 7 Photo 8 Photo 9 Photo 10
MM7084  Photo 1 Photo 2
MM7086 **Photo 1 Photo 2
MM7088  Photo 1 Photo 2
NOTE: ** - plane arrived home 16/03/1991 due to technical stop at Luxor, Egypt.
Planes were from units:

6. Stormo/154 Gruppo, Brescia-Ghedi AB
36 Stormo/156 Gruppo, Gioia del Colle AB
50 Stormo/155 Gruppo, Piacenza San Damiano AB


Contingent at Al Dhafra AB consisted of 8+2 airplanes. There were 23 airframes oversprayed and prepared for Gulf war, but only 16 were there. They were rotated to Gulf and back with crews.

Here is the list of when the airframe was in Gulf:

Ser. no.From25/09/9025/10/9020/12/9031/12/9013/01/9119/01/91
 Till24/10/9019/12/9030/12/9012/01/9118/01/9115/03/91
        
7019 X XXXX
7035  XXX  
7050  XX XX
7055  X    
7061 X XXXX
7067 X   XX
7070  XXX  
7071  XXXXX
7073 X  XXX
7074 X  XX 
7075 X  XXX
7076  X    
7080  XX XX
7084  XXX  
7086 X    X
7088 X  XXX

The planes flew 1108 missions lasting 2129 hours at all with 226 war sorties with 589 hours. They dropped 565 bombs, mainly Mk.83LDGPs and some Mk.20.