The multi-role combat aircraft Tornado ended up being jointly developed and built by an international collaboration of Italian, German and British companies. After forty years through the setup of the development, the Tornado is, nevertheless today, an aircraft with an important operational ability. The Tornado is a twin-engine, variable sweep wing in a position to perform well as a low-level supersonic attack aircraft and able to “follow” the floor profile. Many successful commercial variation ended up being the bottom attack variant IDS (Interdictor and strike). Down the road, from the IDS variation, the ECR (Electronic Combat and Reconnaissance), built as platform the electronic warfare and atmosphere defence suppression, happens to be derived.
