RAF Tornado retirement set

BAE have released the MOD’s Tornado retirement date:

http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2012/08/bonkers-tonkas-uk-sets-tornado.html

March 2019…..

Certainly earlier than some were starting to predict.

So Typhoon will bear the brunt of UK offensive operations for a significant period whilst the F35B arrives in numbers (I rather suspect we will see Typhoon reach as close to its full potential by then)