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In the northern hemisphere these warplanes are called "Tornado".

Eurofighter Typhoon and Panavia Tornado are different aircraft.

It was an obvious joke relating to regional names for weather events.

Of course; it doesn't even make sense for Europe to have a "Typhoon" aircraft due to the geographical location.

I guess Europe has some "Penguin" submarines, too.

We'll consider renaming the plane when US changes the Apollo program to something that doesn't refer to European heritage.

oops. I obviously have no sense of humour today. would it not be "hurricane" though?