RAF Typhoons land on road in Finland
 

The Independent:


https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....bd26332b1.jpeg

.....a shape shifting Typhoon??

Lots of pictures on this thread at Fighter Control; Road Base exercise BAANA 23,
Sorry, can't copy the link across.

A Jaguar did this on the M55 back in the mid 70s:


There have been Tornados too. The A10s practice it all of the time.

Not exactly new!

I don’t think anybody’s claiming it’s a new capability. Just the first time an RAF Typhoon has used it, making it noteworthy.

Wirth extra fin(n)

Hardly surprising given the almost zero lack of knowledge or ability to spend 5mins on Google that these modern journo's have these days.

"Crazy"?

As if infinitely planned and analysed military excercises would ever include 'crazy'.
As inaccurate, infantile, overwrought and devoid of reality as the yootoob generation usually is with the content of their mangled text.

Another ‘news’ source has the same story but with a picture of a Norwegian F-35 captioned “RAF Typhoon”.

I'll believe it when I see a photo of it.
Until then I'll have to look out for the Viggens and Gripens who do it in Sweden.(if they still fly Viggens that is)
Whose F18 was it anyway?

The RAF take on it

Apparently it was flying so low it took out a ULEZ sign.
https://i0.wp.com/theaviationist.com...n_05.jpg?ssl=1

Don't get many Ukrainian Airforce fighters flying that low over London ;)

Finland?

:ugh:

Yawn. The Germans had at least 28 Emergency Landing Strips on various autobahn forty odd years ago.

very cool :eek:

The point of the post was that the photo is of an F-18 illustrating an article about Typhoons.

Is a newspaper posting the wrong picture to illustrate an aviation story really news? Most of them don't know their a*se from their elbow :rolleyes:

I thought it was unanimous ....... arse/elbow mixup is SOP.

Most people are so aware of the autobahn/M55 precedents that it's a bit of a cliche. I think the narrative here is that, rather than 4/6 lanes and a hard shoulder, this strip is appears little more than single carriageway running through a closely packed forest.

To give an idea of the width of the road. Lane width 2,6m, total paved area width ca. 5,5m.

The ultimate dispersal ac - bring back the Harrier - it was retired far too early!

I wonder how much drag that screw causes? You would think they could have faired it over.

Looks like it just got back from the vet, forlorn, wings folded.

Couldn’t do that in Ozstralia, locals have enough trouble merging on a three lane freeway.

Or $1 mm from BAe

You couldn't do it in the UK because there's probably not a decent piece of road without potholes or cracks in it.

and very few roads in the Uk are straight and without bridges

Here are the photos from the Finnish Air Force official FB page

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....4902b28b41.jpg
https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....b98afb2c67.jpg
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....87873d611f.jpg
https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....21f7df39ab.jpg
https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....a036f32a36.jpg
https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....9b86ed84ce.jpg
https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....2fe3d91596.jpg
https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....bf2a96600d.jpg
https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....5a1638ae22.jpg
https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....66b410a3eb.jpg
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....481377b745.jpg

Piece of p1ss.
Nice to see they've built parking areas at the end of the strip just like the ones in Cyprus.

I guess one landing challenge is the unusual visual perspective of the 'runway' compared with the norm.

It's what happens when you have generalists on a specialist beat like defence, sadly.

Excellent, Highways Agency are now surveying UK roads for a section long enough without pot holes.

Jokes aside. how significant a problem would this be for fighter aircraft ? What degree of uneveness could an aircraft absorb without being thrown off-line ?

Roundabouts are also a challenge!!

Apart from demonstrating an aircraft's capability it is irrelevant in the UK. There are dozens of proper runways that could be used before you'd have to resort to roads.

The fact that it's been done in Finland which, in case you don't know, borders Russia, indicates that this and the F35A sorties by the Royal Norwegian Airforce were intended to do a bit of 'sabre rattling' against Putin.
Whilst there might be suitable roads in the UK where this could be done but hasn't eg the 'famous' stretch of the A1 north of the disused Woolfox Lodge Bloodhound site, it would only be for a 'role demonstration' not for actual ops.