Road becomes runway for Swedish Air Force Gripen fighter jets

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During an exercise near Gothenburg, Sweden, a road became a runway for the Swedish Air Force's Gripen fighter jets.
Nato has released footage of the Gripens landing on a road in rural Sweden.
Swedish fighter pilots were practising the art of landing on civilian highways - giving them extra flexibility for any potential crisis.
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@marcusp905 4 месяца назад

They could not do this in dorset to many pot holes

@Bert4ceasar 4 месяца назад

Awesome jetfighter and multirole airplane. Love the Swedish joined NATO.

@boredgrass 4 месяца назад

🤔 so...if you want to turn on the street, you not only have to look left and right but also up...? 🧐

@rokuth 4 месяца назад

Probably the best aircraft to replace the RAF Jaguar GR3 in a "What if" scenario. Just saying...

@lizardlinks 4 месяца назад

We couldn't do that in the UK, the roads aren't smooth enough

@timmurphy5541 4 месяца назад

It requires special sections of road. Also the aircraft and the maintenance system are designed to only require 4 people to rearm, refuel and perform the basic turnaround tasks. The aim is to fly more frequently to make up for having much less aircraft.

@johnnunn8688 4 месяца назад

They would me made smooth. Did you miss the part about ‘specially engineered roads’?

@thunder2434 2 месяца назад

@@johnnunn8688Don't read too much of it into that. It means the road section is widened and that a roadside space is available to camoflage and refuel & rearm the plane. You wouldn't want big potholes either in the asphalt. Not much more to it than that. These roads are normal car roads used every day by actual cars, just a wider stretch.

@johnnunn8688 2 месяца назад

@@thunder2434 that’s why I said any potholes would be made smooth but don’t read to much into it.

@davidjohns4745 4 месяца назад

Refuelling in motorway services. Don’t eat the sandwiches.

@thunder2434 2 месяца назад

Trolls keep spreading that Gripen using roads to land and take off is hype. Does this look like hype to you?

@berndb.9890 Месяц назад

Impressive images! Thank you.

@TheGonzogibby 4 месяца назад

“Specially engineered road” - so a runway *I know Gripen’s can land on some rough stuff. Still not Mig-29 landing/takeoff distance though

@AlexKall 4 месяца назад

It doesn't need "Specially engineered road", as long as the road is wide and long enough and there's nothing on the road surface (objects, such as dividers etc) it can land on it.

@timmurphy5541 4 месяца назад

I think they do use specially engineered bits of road but they're much too short for most jets and I don't think the engineering is very special.

@gianlucagiglio-id5be 4 месяца назад

Alt warm gentlemen 😮 what does this mean? Should we expect a fighter jet in the supermarket parking lot?😢

@keysplayerdelseymour 4 месяца назад

Couldn’t do that in the uk the road has way to many potholes lmao

@johnnunn8688 4 месяца назад

Old hat, used to land Viggens and Drakens too.

@evaandossa8919 4 месяца назад

EVERY NATO COUNTRY MUST BE TRAINED TO THIS AND HAVE ROADS READY FOR THIS!

@dadwire1483 4 месяца назад

True! Every NATI country will have destroyed roads in wartime/natural disasters! Good to have the Saab Gripen..!

@supercat380 4 месяца назад

That's why the F35 is so popular because it doen't need runways and roads

@jacktyler5241 4 месяца назад

Depends on the variant, no?

@supercat380 4 месяца назад

@@jacktyler5241 actually, vertical take-off and landing or even VTOL doesn't need a runway, just a short strip. However, this comes at a cost of high fuel consumption resulting in reduced payload penalty.

@pepperroni6252 4 месяца назад

@@supercat380 You do realise they still need heat resistant roads to land on? the jet wash is very hot and would easily melt tarmac

@supercat380 4 месяца назад

@@pepperroni6252 considering that the northern countries in Europe have cool weather, unlike southern European countries, it is unlikely that the quick heat wave of the landing or departing aircraft will have a adverse affect on the road asphalt. The main problem is lack of landing lights and width of road to accomodate the aircraft safely.

@jacktyler5241 4 месяца назад

@@supercat380 I think you misunderstand me. Not all F35s have VTOL capabilities. I also believe operationally F35s are STOVL not VTOL, despite being VTOL capable. So some F35s do need runways for take off and landing, depending on the variant.

@steviegogo67 4 месяца назад

They have been doing this for years...old news

@walterstoll8043 4 месяца назад

yes, when the highway from Zuerich to Bern was finished in the 1960's, stretches were regularly tested for jet landings, like Mirage, Hunter, Venoms.....