Panavia Tornado IDS - Germany - 1990
Marinefliegergeschwader 2 (1990)

Subject:: Panavia Tornado IDS
Marinefliegerkommando (German Naval Aviation Command 1956-now)
MFG 2 45+38
basaltgrau, graublau, grüngrau
Scale:: 1:72
Status:: Completed

Revell kit at 1:72.

Panavia Tornado IDS of the German Navy, part of Marinefliegergeschwader 2 (MFG2) prior to merging with MFG1 in 1993.
The camouflage scheme is the standard Norm 87E, which is a norm initially designed and used exclusively by this navy unit.

After the disband of MFG2, some of the aircraft ended up in other units (replacing older batches) with several machines maintaining the old navy camouflage, while wearing their new unit markings either from the newly organized MFG1 or probably from other Luftwaffe units.

My model is armed here with two anti-ship missiles Kormoran 2. The German Tornados could carry a total of 4 Kormoran missiles, usually with two equipping the pylons below the fuselage and the other two on the wing pylons. When only two Kormoran missiles were equipped, it was rather usual to have them mounted under the fuselage. The configuration with only two Kormoran missiles on the wings did exist, but it was rather rare.