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		dalkvist on Jan 10, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Crisis over The Atlantic: The near crash of Air Tr... Sweden had/has roads onthe middle of nowhere/forest that has more free space on the sides and at each end of particularly strate and flat stretches, there are oversized parking spots. Supposedly so fighter planes could refuse and rearm from mobile crews

jabl on Jan 11, 2023 [–]

Finland has plenty of those too. Here's a video of an F-18 doing a landing and takeoff from such a stretch of road during some exercise:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj_eJxy8ojk

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