F-35A Has Flown from a Highway for the First Time

Re:F-35A Has Flown from a Highway for the First Time by Someone on Monday September 25, 2023 @04:23PM (#37650072)

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.

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Re:F-35A Has Flown from a Highway for the First Time by zokier on Monday September 25, 2023 @04:48PM (#37650392)

This 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

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Re:F-35A Has Flown from a Highway for the First Time by purkka on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @03:59AM (#37655959)

This isn't to say they wouldn't use "regular width" roads during wartime if necessary. No point taking that risk during peacetime.

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