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A Tornado is of course even more powerful. It has a pair of Turbo-Union RB199 afterburning triple-spool turbofan engines with 9800 lbf thrust each (17300 lbf with afterburners on) and a top speed of Mach 2.2 with the wing swept back.

Edit: at full afterburner, it burns fuel at a heat output of 235 MW (expressed as horsepower: 315140)

parent HPsquared 3 years ago

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