Which Tornado do you want?

[Trakkar]

IDF, RECCE, ECR. Well... to be fair, simply all of them ;)

[lobo]

Tornado IDS. With a jester type WSO!

[Madeyes]

I work on the IDS & tho I hate the thing to work on i'd love to fly it in DCS.

[amalahama]

I work on the IDS & tho I hate the thing to work on i'd love to fly it in DCS.

 

Why? Too cumbersome to maintain?

[rinkerbuck]

IDS! Been missing that thing since Spektrum Holobytes DOS game.

[oreste]

When we say Tornado everyone thinks of a bomber that darting at low altitude and releasing bombs, the only real Tornado is that, all the other versions are to be excluded from the calculation. A system for automatic low-altitude flight and a lot of fuel ha ha ha.

[TheCabal]

Will it be ever be like that again.... watch and be surprised yourself especially search the comments for timestamps.. there is so much happening. Digital Integration Tornado => ~10MB

 

Edited April 14, 2020 by TheCabal

[Cowboy10uk]

IDS hands down please.

[Bananabrai]

I thought IDS would be without question :megalol:

 

But which sub-variant do you guys want?

I would opt for a very late GR.1 + GR.1A + GR.1B (1995-2000)

 

Could live with all the other variants, somehow at least :joystick:

But 4* ALARMs in loiter mode + the belly free for more toys causes me wet low-level-retro-dreams...

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Edited April 22, 2020 by Bananabrai

[whiteladder]

I thought IDS would be without question :megalol:

 

But which sub-variant?

I opt for a very late GR.1 + GR.1A + GR.1B (1995-2000)

 

Could live with all the other variants, somehow at least :joystick:

But 4* ALARMs in loiter mode + the belly free for more toys causes me wet low-level-dreams...

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+1

 

The Alarms in game at the moment have totally the wrong flight profile. Lobby some Alarms over an airfield while they get jp233 spread over them would be the best fun since 1992

[Fiachra]

IDS, it would not be the ideal choice for ADV role.

[chaos]

IDS for sure however....

 

Half of all the things that made Tornado enjoyable for me was flight-planning. I could spend a lot of time optimizing my flight-plan. Making use of terrain masking and minimizing exposure to AA defences. Time management so as to arrive with all 4 aircraft within a few seconds to strike an airfield.

 

This, I believe, is an essential part of the module (*if* ED is planning to create this module at all). The mission editor in DCS should be updated to allow for quick and easy planning "Tornado-way".

[Bananabrai]

+1

 

The Alarms in game at the moment have totally the wrong flight profile. Lobby some Alarms over an airfield while they get jp233 spread over them would be the best fun since 1992

 

:robot: Oh man that would be so cool!

 

2nd hope would be an early GR.4 but late GR.1 (and maybe sub-variants A and B) would be awesome :joystick:

[Jazz_82]

IDS

[Tonker]

Page two? Can't be having that.

 

[TEMPEST.114]

"Which Tornado do I want?"

 

The one that's an F-14D. :)

[Swiso]

Page two? Can't be having that.

 

+1000 on this beauty !!!

[Luft Waffel]

Tornado GR4. Heatblur has already done wing sweep, multicrew, AI rear-seater, and their own air to ground radar. Probably the hardest things about simulating this aircraft. This is the perfect project for them. I really hope they do it.

[CarbonFox]

The Tornado GR4 ofcourse.

[Focha]

Page two? Can't be having that.

 

 

I miss seeing those jets in the late 80's, early 90's. :cry: Today stuff is way too stealthy.

[westr]

The 3rd party devs are our only hope after Nick Grey ruled out ED doing it.

[QuiGon]

The 3rd party devs are our only hope after Nick Grey ruled out ED doing it.

I still very much hope that Heatblur is currently working on a Tornado. :worthy:

[kotor633]

Perhaps TrueGrit would also be a suitable candidate. Only then, I'm afraid we will have to wait a long time for the tornado, 'cause they have a lot to do with the EF.

[sublime]

any tornado that isnt vaporware

[MKev]

I searched for some documentation on the IDS Variants. These MFDs/Screens seen in some Pictures came with ASSTA 2 already. Regarding German variants and classification I see chances for ASSTA 2 in DCS.

 

In regards of the british variants I go with GR.4. Based on Infos from the Web the GR.1 variant had no FLIR, LASER, GPSWR and no night time operation capabilities. So it is GR.4 for me. And GR.4 is a 1998 Modernisation. So it should be possible to get it into DCS. Since the Tornado is retired in the UK the chance to get former classified documentation and information should be higher.

 

I am not sure how accurate those informations on the web are. Maybe some experts and some active or former tornado pilots can shed some light on those variants and its differences.

 

My bets for Heatblur doing Tornado IDS Gr.4 or similar are pretty high, after experiencing their great work with the F-14B Tomcat. I would say 80:20 chance. It would fit Heatblur very well.

It should be possible for Heatblur to get well and swift through development on such an Tornado IDS Project, since all the experience they made with the Tomcat.

Edited August 23, 2020 by MKev