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Finland closes one of its main motorways so fighter jet pilots can practice landings and take-offs as it steps up war games amid tensions with Russia over Ukraine invasion
2022-09-30
  • The Joutsa site has not been used for decades by the Air Force due to highway

  • But it took the Air Force a few days to clear roadsides and prepare it for exercise

  • They practised landing and 'hot refuelling' a fighter jet with its engines running
Posted by:Skidmark

#2  Every time they talk about this the FOD (Foreign Object Damage) patrol they need to do is a nightmare. There just aren't that many planes designed with jet engine intakes high enough to avoid slurping in all sort of trash.
Posted by: magpie   2022-09-30 15:07  

#1  Obviously not built to American highway standards (government full employment work aka permanent repair and rebuild graft).
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-09-30 12:59  

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