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Old 11th Jun 2007, 14:12
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Contrary to what PN and BB said,

Originally Posted by Brewster Buffalo
"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."
The Spring 07 Aviate, page 30, says that 8 Tornado were lost in the training leading to GW1 and during operations. Of these 8 50% were due controlled flight into terrain in all probability.

And not all of the other losses were on JP233 attacks -
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