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The Swedish military have designed and built their (own) fighter jets precisely for this scenario. These fighter jets can take more abuse during take off and l
by ThinkBeat 3y ago
The Swedish military have designed and built their (own) fighter jets
precisely for this scenario.
These fighter jets can take more abuse during take off and landing than
the F35 can.
They have also built the natural infrastructure needed.
Smaller somewhat hidden Airforce bases inside mountains or such, located
near suitable highways, so the airplane can land, be maintained, refueled and rearmed easily.
This gives them an easy way to distribute their fighters much more distributed than most countries.
If you dont have a means to protect, maintain, refuel and rearm the landed jet, it makes the landing a lot less useful.
This is primarily a PR stunt.
That Norway is even mentioning this as a good solution is a joke.
Norway has based most of their F35 on a single airbase.
With a second one planned or ready to go.
So as centralized as possible.
Sweden has far far higher standards on highways than Norway does.
(In part exactly because they planned for this)
Wider, straighter and with continuous maintenance to keep the tarmacs
flat.
Norway has none of this.