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by HPsquared 1033 days ago
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)

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The Eurofighter Typhoon houses two EJ200 engine with 60 kN (13,500 lbf) of dry thrust and >90 kN (20,230 lbf) with afterburners. I believe there are experimental versions of EJ200 with >100 kN thrust but since Typhoon is being retired across Europe and no oversea sales, we won't see Typhoon armed with them.
A land route exists, so not technically overseas, this Typhoon is sometimes observed outside its signature range, eg over Yemen.