Which aircraft replaced the Tornado in No. 617 "Dambuster" Squadron?

No. 617 Squadron re-formed on 1 January 1983 at RAF Marham, re-equipped with twelve Panavia Tornado GR1s. The Tornado had been developed and built by Panavia Aircraft GmbH, a three-nation consortium made up of British Aerospace, formerly the British Aircraft Corporation, the German MBB and the Italian Aeritalia. That consortium came into being on 26 March 1969, when the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands agreed to create a multinational company. Counting all variants, 990 Tornados were built.

The unit was disbanded on 28 March 2014, as part of the drawdown of the Tornado force. The programme also included an air-defence version, the Tornado ADV, for which in 1976 British Aircraft Corporation was contracted to supply three prototypes. The Foxhunter radar of its F3 variant could perform long, wide sweeps of the surrounding airspace, which allowed that Tornado to track and attack targets at long range.

The squadron re-formed on 18 April 2018. On 6 June 2018, four Lightnings of No. 617 Squadron made an eight-hour flight across the Atlantic to become the first UK-based aircraft permanently stationed at RAF Marham.