The Luftwaffe Tornados are no longer 'blind' in night flight and will be able to take part in the 100% anti-ISIS campaign conducted by the international coalition. The development of the 6 Panavia Tornado IDS (Interdiction and Strike) and 'RECCE' deployed by the Bundeswehr in the NATO base of Incirlik in Turkey has ended and from the other you were the fighter-bombers that exhibit the 'cross license' can operate even at night on the territories fallen into the hands of the Daesh. The problem, as we mentioned in a previous article, was found in the reverberation produced in the night vision devices of the pilot and navigator from the 'new lights installed' in the cabin during the last retrofit of the devices. The jets, belonging to the Luftwaffengeschwader 33 and 51 operated from January only in daytime reconnaissance missions on Syria and Iraq.
(Photo: Luftwaffe)
