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This doesn’t look like a special part of a highway that’s prepared to be an airstrip, but just a stretch of road without any obstacles such as road lighting. T
by Someone 3y ago
This doesn’t look like a special part of a highway that’s prepared to be an airstrip, but just a stretch of road without any obstacles such as road lighting.
This being Norway, I expect they have quite a bit of that. The country is reasonably large (385,000km²), population density is fairly low (15 persons/km²), so in large parts of the country roads won’t be busy and don’t need much infrastructure.
- zokier 3y agoThis is Finland, not Norway, and the landing sites definitely are prepared and marked as such, they are not just random stretches of road. edit: you can clearly see in satellite images the strip in question here, its significantly wider than the surrounding road and additionally has been recently repaved: https://maps.app.goo.gl/teYJ7wzbTzcfwngB6 https://maps.app.goo.gl/teYJ7wzbTzcfwngB6
- purkka 3y agoThis isn't to say they wouldn't use "regular width" roads during wartime if necessary. No point taking that risk during peacetime.