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Has the RAF actually surveyed some of the motorways in the north of England recently? I nearly broke a spring from a dipped pothole on the M6 south. Not to fo
by tomaytotomato 3y ago
Has the RAF actually surveyed some of the motorways in the north of England recently?
I nearly broke a spring from a dipped pothole on the M6 south.
Not to forget all the smart motorway signs every 100 meters and signboards overhead, will make a landing "interesting".
- Shrezzing 3y agoVertical landing drops staight in from the sky, and comes to an immediate halt. These planes just need a strip of concrete wider & longer than the plane itself. Realistically you could comfortably put one down on a motorway service station carpark, and then lay a short portable runway along its off-ramp for takeoff.
- nicholassmith 3y ago> Realistically you could comfortably put one down on a motorway service station carpark I'm sure the exceptionally canny operators of motorway service stations would find a way to make some extra money off them then. Come for a coffee, stay for a jet launch.
- tomaytotomato 3y agoOr get a parking fine for staying longer than 2 hours with your jet...
- martin8412 3y agoClamp the tires for illegal parking
- Theodores 3y agoIt is never going to be for the UK. With Ukraine you want the plane to take off from Ukraine, not the UK, or else it is seen as direct involvement. So the plane takes off from the UK, lands in the motorway somewhere near Keeeev and then the Ukrainian pilot hops on, to carry out the mission. He then lands on the highway again, the plane stays still for the British pilot to get in, he does so, flying up to meet a tanker over Poo land to then get home by teatime. He lands on a regular runway.
- aembleton 3y agoBut what about if you want to disperse fighter jets away from runways so that its not so easy to destroy all of our planes?
- michaelt 3y agoThe UK has 30 F-35Bs, ~50 RAF bases, and over 200 airports. (mostly hastily built WW2 airfields kept in operation by local flying clubs [1]) Every country within the plane's operating range except Switzerland and Ireland is a NATO ally. We can disperse the fighter jets without needing to resort to landing on roads. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airports_in_the_United_Kingdom_and_the_British_Crown_Dependencies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airports_in_the_United...