Originally Posted by
Audax
Singapore also has long stretches of straight road parallel to the runways at Tengah and Paya Lebar. However, the buy of F35B may well reflect the vulnerability of runways and road strips.
Those roads are tarmac; an F35b will rip the surface to pieces if it doesn't melt it first; I saw what happened with the Yak 141 at Farnborough in '92; I was there.