credit: U.K. MoD/Crown Copyright
caption: A British RAF Typhoon F2 fighter aircraft (top) flies in close
formation with a Tornado F3 aircraft.
A Typhoon F2 fighter aircraft (top) from 11 Squadron, RAF Coningsby in close formation with a Tornado F3 aircraft formerly from the same Squadron.
Tornados first flew with this historic Squadron in 1988. In Oct 2005 the Squadron was disbanded but reformed again at RAF Coningsby on 29 Mar 07 as the RAF’s second frontline Typhoon squadron. As the multi-role lead squadron, it spearheads the development of Typhoons air-to-surface capability, which was ready for deployed operations by the summer of 2008.
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