ExRigger
The figures I have is two Tornados (1x RAF, 1x Italian) on the 18th Jan 91 (first day of the war), 1 on the 20th, 1 on the 23rd and 1 on the 25th. Hardly shot down in in droves is it. The total aircraft losses for all coalition aircraft between the 18th Jan and the 14th Feb was 27, again hardly droves.
By co-incidence I'm reading the section on the Tornado in the Gulf War in Lewis Page's book and that says -
"Within seven days they (RAF) had lost 5 tornado bombers from a force of 45, all to ground fire in the vicinity of their targets......The RAF's Tornados had thus taken 10% casualities in a week."