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Tornado F.3 External Fuel Tank Capacity And Weight  
User currently offlineMD11Fanatic From United States of America, joined Oct 2006, 81 posts, RR: 0
Posted (6 years 1 week 3 days 9 hours ago) and read 7122 times:

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What is the capacity of fuel in one of these external fuel tanks? Also, how much does each one weigh?

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User currently offlineA342 From Germany, joined Jul 2005, 4655 posts, RR: 4
Reply 1, posted (6 years 1 week 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 7069 times:

The large tanks used on British Tornado aircraft, IIRC, have a capacity of 2250 liters. A smaller one of 1500 liters exists, this is used by German and probably Italian aircraft.

One liter of jet fuel weighs about 0.8kg, add the weight of the tank itself and IMHO then the total weight should be about 1kg per liter of capacity.


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User currently offlineBilgeRat From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2006, 174 posts, RR: 1
Reply 2, posted (6 years 1 week 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 7057 times:		 Support Airliners.net - become a First Class Member!

That pic is actually a GR.1 if I'm not mistaken, and in that pic it has the smaller external tanks.

User currently offlineA342 From Germany, joined Jul 2005, 4655 posts, RR: 4
Reply 3, posted (6 years 1 week 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 6970 times:

Yes, indeed this is a GR1 / GR4 / IDS ground attack variant.


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User currently offlineMD11Fanatic From United States of America, joined Oct 2006, 81 posts, RR: 0
Reply 4, posted (6 years 1 week 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 6948 times:

So these tanks are the 1500L tanks and each tank as a result weighs 300kg?

User currently offlineA342 From Germany, joined Jul 2005, 4655 posts, RR: 4
Reply 5, posted (6 years 1 week 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 6922 times:

Quoting MD11Fanatic (Reply 4):
So these tanks are the 1500L tanks and each tank as a result weighs 300kg?

Maybe much less...

Now I remember that I had started a discussion about the empty weight of drop tanks, you can find some info there:

Empty Weight Of Drop Tanks? (by A342 Sep 24 2006 in Military Aviation & Space Flight)


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