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2nd of October 2022

2nd of October 2022
Driving back home. This is not a highway, but just a smallish road somewhere in the countryside. But this particular stretch of the road has been built so that it can be used as a runway for fighter jets. There are this kind of covert runways scattered around the Finnish countryside - the idea is that if a need arises, the Finnish fleet of warplanes would be re-located to these countryside runways. As, any invasion by an aggressive country is likely to start with them bombing military airbases - but they'd have hard times trying to bomb all of these small runways. That way most of the Finnish jets would stay operational to intercept any incoming planes. (Sometimes I've heard foreign people commenting as if they thought that Finland not having been a NATO member would've meant Finland somehow being unprepared or defenseless against a foreign invasion. But to me such comments seem to arise only from not knowing how consistently the Finnish armed forces have been maintaining their preparedness, not letting the guard down when the Cold War ended.)
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