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> there will only be a few of these highway airstrips In Finland there is hundreds of them of various levels of preparedness while we only have 4 actual air fo
by doikor 3y ago
> there will only be a few of these highway airstrips
In Finland there is hundreds of them of various levels of preparedness while we only have 4 actual air force bases.
Some of them have nice extra wide tarmac, bunkers hidden in the forest to store gear, etc. These are the ones used during peace time for practice.
During wartime if those are destroyed you use the less prepared ones which are just normal roads with a long enough straight and no bridges etc. You go and cut down the trees and electricity poles next to the road, fill any potholes and use that.
In the end all you really need is a road wide enough to fit the landing gear of the plane and enough length to speed up / slow down. Though obviously you use the better/nicer ones if you can (especially during peace time)