Would a navalized Tornado work?

How practical would a navalized Tornado have been, and would it have been better than the F-14 Tomcat?

It was physically possible, but the required airframe redesign and the limited advantages over existing naval aircraft made it an unattractive alternative to the F-14.

A carrier Tornado was physically possible, as the carrier-capable F-111B demonstrated for another large swing-wing aircraft. Short landing distances, an airbrake, and a parachute would not prepare Tornado's airframe for the loads of a carrier landing. Naval aircraft such as the Phantom and Buccaneer could transfer into land service with their structural strength already built in, while conversion in the other direction would require strengthening an established design. Very high-speed strike is conceded as a Tornado advantage over Buccaneer, but the difficult development of Tornado's air-defence version adds to the objections to creating a naval fighter variant. Viggen is suggested as a less difficult land-based starting point, although it would already be ageing by the 1980s.