Not often I pop in here, but thought I'd correct a few misapprehensions...
The Tornado F2 was pretty awful, with its famous Blue Circle radar. But the F3, as Spesh says, was pretty good at its designed role, which was medium to high level beyond visual range interception defending the UK mainland. It was not, and was never intended to be, a 'dogfighter' like the F16, and its performance limitations were sorely exposed in GW2, where its inability to perform AAR at much above F150 made it a liability for the both the F3 and the tanker crews. But it was far from being as bad as some of the uninformed comment would have it.
The TSR2 was not really a multi-role aircraft. It was specifically designed as a replacement for the Canberra in the tactical nuclear and conventional strike role, with a secondary capability in photo reconnaissance. It was way, way over budget, and similarly way overweight, and it would not, in its projected production form, have met its design specs. However, it had that in common with just about every aircraft that the UK has developed since WW2! In its favour, it was incredibly pretty. There's no way, however, that it would have had the breadth of capability that the F4 Phantom had, which eventually replaced the Canberra (among many other types) in RAF service - and which cost far less. Though we did our best to screw that up by installing RR Speys and other UK-manufactured equipment, and it was only when we bought secondhand F4Js from the US Marines that we realised how much better our F4s could have been (and how little progress the Tornado GR1 and F3 actually represented).
