Panavia Tornado: The Swing-Wing Spear of the Cold War
Born in the shadow of nuclear annihilation and forged by three nations with a single urgent purpose, the Panavia Tornado was Europe's most formidable strike aircraft of the Cold War. Designed to fly lower, faster, and deeper into hostile territory than any of its contemporaries, it stood on permanent alert for a war that-mercifully-never came. Yet when Cold War tensions finally gave way to real conflict, the Tornado proved that it was far more than a doomsday machine.
From the deserts of Iraq to the mountains of Afghanistan and the skies over the Balkans and Libya, the Tornado reinvented itself as one of the most adaptable and battle-proven combat aircraft in modern history. This book tells the complete, fact-based story of that transformation: the politics that created it, the engineering that made it possible, the crews who flew it at the edge of survivability, and the wars that ultimately defined its legacy.
Rich in technical insight yet written in flowing narrative style, Panavia Tornado: The Swing-Wing Spear of the Cold War is the definitive biography of an aircraft that bridged two eras of warfare. It is a story of deterrence, sacrifice, multinational cooperation, and relentless adaptation-of a machine built to fight the unthinkable that instead shaped the real wars of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
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