RAF TORNADO FLIES IN ‘DESERT PINK’ TO MARK 25 YEARS ON OPERATIONS

We have seen RAF Tornados fly over the sky's of Moray for years but never in pink.

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS since the Royal Air Force helped liberate Kuwait from Saddam Hussein’s forces, an RAF Tornado GR4 has been painted in the iconic Gulf War ‘desert pink’ paint scheme to honour the aircraft type’s almost continuous operational service since then. On 28 February – the 25th anniversary of Saddam’s forces’ withdrawal from Kuwait – the aircraft is planned to stage a flypast at the National Arboretum at an event honouring the British forces involved in the Gulf War.