It is home to a military airfield, now used for maintenance of the Panavia Tornado and Eurofighter Typhoon of the Aeronautica Militare.
On 12 April 2007 a Luftwaffe Tornado stationed in Lechfeld, Bavaria and flying by sight rather than by instrument, crashed high into the Wall between the Mittaghorn and the Ebnefluh.
At the beginning of the OVA, Japan is attacked by Tornado jets, as used by European Air forces, and the attacking army is described as 'The Combined Forces'.
With the introduction of the Panavia Tornado IDS in 1979 the Jagdbombergeschwader 31 again was the first unit to switch to the new plane.
On 30 May 1985 the wing had completed its transition to the Panavia Tornado IDS.
The wing operates 25 Panavia Tornado aircraft in the tactical reconnaissance role and has two reconnaissance ground stations that can be deployed on overseas operations.
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Since June 2007 the Typhoons of No. 3(F) Squadron have formed part of air defence of the UK along with RAF Leuchars near St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, both of which were equipped with Panavia Tornado F3 fighters.
In November 1999 a RAF Panavia Tornado crashed into the North Sea less than 1 km from the power station following an engine failure.
On 16 January 1991, during the First Persian Gulf War, Iraqi ZSU-57-2s shot down a Tornado GR1 strike aircraft during an attack by four British aircraft on the Iraqi Shaibah air base.