Tornado IDS

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Loadout info

Tornado IDS

Ser. no.	Comment	Photos

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.	From	25/09/90	25/10/90	20/12/90	31/12/90	13/01/91	19/01/91
	Till	24/10/90	19/12/90	30/12/90	12/01/91	18/01/91	15/03/91

7019		X		X	X	X	X
7035			X	X	X
7050			X	X		X	X
7055			X
7061		X		X	X	X	X
7067		X				X	X
7070			X	X	X
7071			X	X	X	X	X
7073		X			X	X	X
7074		X			X	X
7075		X			X	X	X
7076			X
7080			X	X		X	X
7084			X	X	X
7086		X					X
7088		X			X	X	X

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.