Then again, there were the oh-so-useful Black Buck raids on the Falklands, that cratered the runways and forced the Argentine C-130s to land on taxiways and off-airport... kind of funny how resourceful those dog**** haulers can be when the going gets bombed. Cheerio!
.. wasn't
one of the objectives to make the airfield unusable to enemy fast jets, in order to reduce their time over the fleet? Did I read somewhere that the Argentinians then tried to install some ancient arrestor wire system, with little success?