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>What the deal with having the roads roll directly onto the runway thresholds, is that in case the legit taxiway surfaces get cratered?

>Related to that was the threat they were building against nukes or runway cratering munitions and cruise missiles? I always assumed the latter.

>Do you know if at the time Bas90 was being conceived they considered using hardened aircraft shelters? and if so why they discounted using them? I've noticed today any Swedish airbase I've looked at just has dispersal hardstands/revetments and some of those light open sided aircraft shelters for QRF not HASes.

>Are the SAAB marketing and memes about Viggen and Gripen being easy to operate from roadbases and prep on a makeshift flight line true?

>Did they design short secondary runways because the Viggen didn't need a 2,000m runway or did they build it with STOL capability because they already planned on operating smol runways.

I can't think of any more specifically phrased questions :(

nationalistic shitposting aside the Viggen and Gripen are neat. I like the nordic autism that went into making the entire aircraft childproof (in the conscript/aircrew 2nd Lt sense) like making the pilot workload minimal, making maintenance simple and allowing easy rearming at roadbases.