Today's the day the teddy-bears play !
Perhaps they are logging the airframe numbers of the Tornados/Typhoons, to see how many servicable ones we've got on inventory !
Whatsalizad,
Thanks ! So the poor devils have to fly 12-hr plus by hand - and the thing doesn't seem to be all that stable, judging by the way they were having to juggle the yoke !
jetslut,
Probably to ramp-up anti-German sentiment at home. They don't like the Germans * very much (with good reason !)
Note *: I believe they called them немцы "nyemtsi" - "the dumb ones" (because they couldn't speak Russian).
D.