NATO Fighter Jets Showcase Incredible Piloting Skills on European Highways - F-35, Gripen, A-10 

Those clever Swedes...Gripen is best IKEA unit Designed to fly from any highway, yet fit sleekly into any living room decor?!?😂😂

Speaking of shit hitting fans, do F35's have the same sensitivity as F16s to debris on runways? I heard F16 runways are walked by ground staff to clear rubbish by hand.

I agree on all counts but, having said that, there is not much a Gripen cannot do. As for the F-35 Fighting Turkey, I suppose it could managed if it only needed fuel and ammo.

@@brendandennis5868 Unlikely. The placement of the F-16’s air intake is its biggest liability on the ground.

I can service the A-10, I've made one 1/48 model. Know every part of it ;)

You reckon if Russia marches into Finland, the US will come to its rescue against the possibility of Russia levelling your cities with hypersonic nukes for which you have no protection and means to shoot down? I admire your courage but we need realism here.

When have you been in Finland and Sweden?

@@claus-not-santa ....why are there no bones in ice cream?

@@markp1506 Ask the producers………..

@@claus-not-santa …….for bones or ice cream?

Yeh...Public Hwy quallified with Zero traffic.

​@@matrox I would prefer to land on a wider deck like an aircraft carrier has than a very long straight but NARROW road on a fighter jet.

It's not a highway. It's a countryroad and they made some extra meters wide for 1500 meters.

Man, that is not a highway, that is a Landsväg. They are really narrow.

@@jonanolakers1567 It's not that fucking narrow... Have you been to one of the roads they land jets on in Sweden cuz I have, and they are wider than normal landsväg...

Roll of eyes!! They selected a good quality road for the video!

We have our fair share of potholes also in Finland. Our road infrastructure gets back a fraction of the amount our government taxes road traffic. It's been like that for couple decades now.

These are not any highways "in europe". These are dispersed stretches that are purposly reinforced and planned to be used as make shift runways when they were built to handle this since their inception and made sure to always be upkept to the highest standard. At least that has been the case for the Swedish highways as this kind of operation has been part of Swedish doctrine for the last 50-60 years.

Beat me to it :-)

@@newera478All nordic contrys have their fair share of frostbitten roads.

In Finland there is publicly known at least some couple dozen places in the road network, which can be used as a airplane field if it becomes necessary. They practice the takeoffs and landings periodically, just like in the video. This is all just a part of preparation for defending the country against possible war of aggression. I believe also Baltic states have quite high rate of preparing to any kind of hostile movements. Finland did never cancel conscription so basically every finnish man have been trained for war, if they had no health issues preventing it. Nowdays also women have the option to go to army if they choose so.

Wow ! I’m impressed 👍

@@captainhappy Excellent! Impressive!

Even a few warthogs (aka Tank killers) in the mix!

As all airfields are prime targets there is no other option than to turn to highways. The Germans did it on a small scale during WWII and kept doing it during g the Cold War.

I came

That was unexpected

A10 more iconic than F16s and F35 I think

that fly by whistle sound is all most as good than BRRRRR. my favorite mill plane easily.

Only the MAGAts owned by Boeing and Lockheed are preventing that.

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Very funny😂Rick : Syd : Australia

Had that once from a UK copper. Mate got caught speeding, and the first line from the copper was "Hello Wing Commander, having problems taking off this morning?"

@@johnmartin2464😂very good.

I swear, officer, I forgot the permit for conceiled carry of air-to-air missiles when I bought my new F-35. That must happen every now and then.

Alien-tech

Pakistani pilots are doing it for the last 15 years

@@shaharyarqureshi6894 Americans have been doing it since WWII on moving Ships 🛳️ actually Allied pilots have to learn to fly in America also.

@@shaharyarqureshi6894 as a matter of fact the purpose of that exercise was to show Russia and China they could blow up airfields and we including all Allied pilots could land anywhere in the world and again we’ve been doing it since WWII

@@shaharyarqureshi6894 Actually I was wrong we’ve been doing it since 1910

Saab cars where underrated too

I dont think its very underrated & neither was Saab as a car brand? Instead i think neither are "as common" simply because they were/are being produced in smaller numbers? in the case of cars (when they still made them) they clearly didn't even get to a quarter of the production of their competition & you could easily find 5x the BMW or Mercedes or Volkswagen dealers for every Saab dealer, in the case of F35 vs Gripen i'm 99% sure they produce something like double the amount of F35's a year (or more?) because it's simply a much bigger (collab of) organization(s) And at the end of the day when a government finally decides to upgrade their jet fleet they want them as soon as possible 🤷‍♂

It's a capable and affordable plane, but unfortunately not stealth which is the name of the game nowadays.

@@QuerientjeI still miss my Saab 96 built in 1972. Had to say goodbye in 1986.😥

グリペンからではなく冷戦時代に運用されたドラケン、ビゲンも同様の運用を可能にしてます……ただＡ－１０やＦ－３５を一般道を離着陸させるとなると航空甲版並の管理を要するので即応性に関してはサーブ社の戦闘機は優れてます。スウェーデンの高速道路は滑走路と同じ仕様にされている事やシェルターが点在していたり高速道路を隠すための偽装用の住宅がある。

そうだね。トンネルが格納庫になるし、中に整備用のハンガーも併設されているんだよ。

Norwegian F-16 Pilots have been known to be the bad ass of the skies. Now we will see how this transit into the new platform. Starting from scratch, basically.

I have enough trouble following center line while on a bicycle

The fighter was designed to make money und to kill people.

I think it’s very practical. It requires far less man hours of maintenance per flight hour than the F-16 and only one has to be a specialist. And still 100% nato compatible.

@jamiefairlie4837 - А скоро падать будут . И не только на дорогу !🤣

It’s only a matter of time. Now the french has promised mirage as well so there is no reason to prevent the ukrainians to use gripen any more…

I wish the war can stop.

While I think it's possibly true, the nature of how Sweden's air force was designed to be distributed isn't necessarily something that can be mapped over to a centralised force in short order.

The challenge of operating three separate fighter systems with unique requirements on crew and maintenance resources might be a stretch even for someone as motivated as the Ukrainians would be

You're signing up for the trenches in Ukraine? Or has another dude to go first?

I just call them wartime air strips whenever I drive over one and someone is asking about them. There are plenty of those.

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it's A型

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Greetings from Ukraine! I wish Finland a peaceful sky!

@@user-ks5kc5qs2c I live in the United States. My late father was conceived here in the United States, born in Finland, and returned to the United States with my Grandmother when he was 7. I just visited his first cousins in 2022. I did not want to leave. Such a beautiful country!

how do we know where is the next spot ?

@@bobsnabby2298 I believe the Finnish forces would let the public know when the highway is being closed. They do these exercises in the summer. You can search for videos of past exercises here on RU-vid by typing: "Finnish Air Force landing on highway" or something like that.

I thought the F35 was going down a bit too hard lol.

@@dixonqwerty yeah, first one scared me a bit xD

Different wing sweep means different aerodynamics, and accordingly different speed and angle of attack on the glide path.

F35の着陸シーンだけ2 倍速で再生されていますね。

With the F35, Vietnam and Afghanistan would have been won.

I think the Norwegians wanted this so their planes have parachutes, I think, to make the landing possible. I think it requires lots of manhours of service per flighthour and every one must receive training and education before they can be used.

@@TheFrewah the parachute is to land on icy conditions where breaking is difficult

Yeah, the F35 won't re-arm and re-fuel in 10min with a ground crew of a few conscripts and a technician, also note that the F35 didn't land on an actual normal road; yes the strip is used as a road for regular vehicles, but Finland, unlike Sweden, are depending largely on "regular" modified/significantly widened roads for dispersed operations, where Gripen can really take off and land on a regular 16x800m road.

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@@hanovergreen4091 Exactly! The entire purpose of the interstate system was the same as Hitler's autobahns (I HATE acknowledging that!) - rapid deployment of military assets within the nation, Ease of cross country travel for commerce and citizenry was just a happy by-product and political selling-point... Slava Ukraini!!! 🦾

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A.H. was doing it in late 1930s

Indicative that other (non Skandinavian) NATO airforces are picking up those skills again.

Exactly.

More like 70 years. Sweden implemented this as a core part of our base structure in 1954. But the Germans landed planes on autobahn already during WW2 so it's not like we invented the concept.

​@@JZsBFFИ для чего они это делают? Для чего им эти компетенции?

​@@jimm8745Почему Швеция не осталась нейтральной страной?! Швеция хочет получить возмездие от России , за все страдания ,принесённые грёбаными шведами , за многие века?!

With the current uncertainty surrounding the level of support from some members of the Republican party for Ukraine, it's prudent not to rely entirely on U.S. assistance. History has shown that American support can sometimes be delayed, as seen in the last two World Wars. It is essential for us in Europe to prepare ourselves to stand united and strong in the face of any potential threat from Russia.

As someone who leans towards the “Right”, Donald J Trump has always made it extremely clear. “Make America Great Again”. As any nation should generally have best interests in mind for their own citizens. President Trump made it clear how most nations were not keeping their ends of the bargain financially with NATO. The US was printing money that we didn’t have. Because of Donald Trump’s insistence, most countries began to have skin in the game. In the last 3 1/2 years we have had a %#^@*+$ in charge that insists on giving money away to other countries to protect their borders while the U.S. borders have been left open even by 1 section of wall that was sitting on the ground ready for installation to close an extremely long section of border. Not only did the Democrat President not put it in place, he sold it to people for pennies on the dollar. It was there, it was paid for, and it was already paid to be installed. This clown took it even further. The US was paying rent while that section of wall was not installed. We just captured 8 or 9 ISISK terrorists this week in America. We can talk about Fentanyl, the Chinese, the Cartels, Children sold into sex trade by the Cartels, the U.S. spending billions to support these millions of people Biden has asked for. Those are some of the reasons the Republicans are against throwing money away. Who’s going to help us get these people out of America that Joe invited. There are many convicted of terrible crimes that were allowed to leave prisons in their own countries. We can’t get President Trump in quick enough.

Note that the F35 footage is not actually a regular road; Finland relies largely on modified and significantly widened roads for their dispersed operations. You can actually tell quite easily from the footage that it's not a normal road, unlike the Gripen footage. Also, it didn't sacrifice those things; it opted for dispersed operations with minimal ground crew and infrastructure demands. F35 simply cannot match the efficiency and frugality of the Gripen in that aspect, and the F35 is by nature then more vulnerable to attacks on its infrastructure. But that vulnerability wasn't a concern for the US, as the risk of anyone invading them is simply close to zero.

It is normal. Pilots do this all the time. It means we have more runways than planes.

Well its in the design of the plane and we did this since the 50s , F35 is an amazing bird but the planes are built for different kinda military conflicts.

Two different roads, and the F-35 weighs twice as much.

@@guyfromthe80s92 well if ur reply os on me read mine again.

With the F35, Vietnam and Afghanistan would have been won.

I think it's good to have a few different platforms, complementing each other.

Mach 2. That's a few penalty points on the license.

And Sweden is really great asset. 👍

Those aren't highways. They're military runways masquerading (and serving) as sections of regular highways. But yeah, no rocks.

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Correct. If it were a highway, they could land 3 jets side by side ;-)

Was about to say tve same :D "What Highways?" I thought.

This is Europe. Perhaps you need to see what "low speed country roads" look like. 🙂

@@Smannellites 70 to 100 km/h, instead of 130 km/h or more (Like in the Case of Germany, where i live). What he was trying to say is that it is even more impressive, because if these would have been Highways, there would have been more Space then it is on these roads. Switzerland did the same these Days with its F18s and they used the Autobahn/Highway. You clearly understood what he meant.

These are called highways were I live, and are not low speed. What you are talking about is is probably akin to a freeway, a divided highway, a restricted access highway, or a motorway. In any case, the airplanes don't care what you call it, as long as it is straight and of sufficient dimensions and weight bearing capacity.

@@gort8203 You are absolutely right about the distinction between Highway and Freeway. I, as you said, thought about an Freeway/Autobahn, when using Highway. What is left is, that it is still an impressive piloting skill.

At least in the case of Gripen it has nothing to do with emergency. In case of war ordinary roads would be used instead of airbases for safety reason. The Swedish air force has operated like that since the Cold War.

@@gunnarmedin4104 Thank you for the helpful information. Makes a lot of good sense in the time of War. Russians can damage air bases but they cannot do the same to all the roads in Finland. Wish your Country the Best.

@@fasx56I think you mean Sweden, not Finland.

@@TheFrewah My mix up.

@@TheFrewah It's true for Finland too. Last time they bought fighter airplanes, they chose the F/A-18 specifically because it can be operated this way. (The F/A-18 was really designed to work from hangarships but that's very similar conditions.) Officially Finland has 12 stretches of road that have been prepared to function as air bases but there's a good chance there are more they keep secret. The Finnish Air Force is upgrading to F-35 now and it was not really designed to operate from field air bases but the Norwegian Air Force has been working on the issues and as you see in this video they've got most of them sorted out by now.

It is not the pilots ir theplanes that is the problem. It is the ground personel, rearment, refuling and maintinance gear that is tricky part.