@@infrapunaperse The vid says it is near Russia so he must be in Finland. Then again, in almost every video on youtube somebody says that they are there every day etc so who knows
Bit too huge technological marvel.. One of the top 3 most expensive aircraft by the unit cost and maintenance, just from seeing little dust on the tarmac it gets itchy and blows a turbine if landing strip is not perfect... Sure it has stealth, but even with the emergency landing strips like highways, if war starts those will be bombed the hell and back very fast and there next airfields are on Sweden. We should have bought the Swedish Gripens since those can land and lift off from pretty much potato field no problem. The stealth means nothing if you cant get the aircraft on the sky or run out of range and then cant react to incoming treats... but of course we bankrupt the nation with shit like F35...
@@Hellsong89 I think I remember hearing somewhere that they use the highways such as seen in this one but also more rural roads which are just doable for the fighter jets
Nice to see the pilot's view there. Very scenic country. While fueling he should have got out and got a Christmas tree to bring home. The guy at the gas station forgot to do the windshield.
@@HeadPack I hate mosquitos, here we have a lot of them in the summer, but it is even worse in Finland. Strangely enough we have had several summers here now with very little and this summer practically speaking no mosquitos.
All the finnish militaty pilots train this again and again and again. That's how it's been since the 60's. Those highways are built that way all over the country so that they can be used as airfields. Just google f-18 highway finland etc. Or mig-21 or Dragens. Same in Sweden and I suppose in Norway and in Russia too. But landing on airfield that is a highway is easier than landing on aircrafr carrier that us finns don't have.
I love this camera angle. It’s typically hard to see what it looks like for the occupants of the planes, but this is amazing. Really feels like you’re apart of the jet.
but that aint nothing like the view you see from the cockpit, you would only see the verrrrrry tip of the point of that plane, you wouldnt seee no bit of the nose
@@Die4dutch2 We have them in Germany. you just have to remove the central guardrail between the two directions then you have a runway. on some highways the fuel stops are also designed so support aircraft.
@@kurttate9446I paid 17 cents for a gallon of gas in Dallas in 1972 during a gas war. I had a motorcycle in the Navy then and could put 2 gallons in the tank, buy a coke and still have change from a dollar.
I'm thinking the Finnish brown bears are also quite annoyed. And even the moose that daily skip over that road and play moose vs car games to pass the time are probably taking a sick day and lounging on a mossy bedrock far away from that road.
We in Finland are also VERY happy that our big bro SWE joined also! It completes FIN joining, makes us way much more stronger together with "the Dad" being around here now too, as seen in this vid. 1+1= 3 🙏
@@RazzeBlomma Well yes, but if you take into consideration the air force, the navy, the amount of population, the size of our economies, general global cultural influence and impact as well as quite a few other aspects as well, it's understandable that people may consider Finland and us Finns "the little brothers" to Sweden and the Swedes. I find or feel no bad intention here, myself.
Почему ребята выше, гордятся....что у них есть старший брат, который их защитит, я никогда не был в Швеции, но был в Финляндии, прекрасная страна, прекрасные люди....зачем вы превращаетесь в куколдов?!((((
Great to see this concept of finding an austere location being used as a landing spot to refuel and go!! Important type of training for the future conflicts.
It is not just about randomly finding a suitable piece. Parts of the road network are specifically designed and built to work as backup runways and airforce trains to scatter to these locations in case of a war to avoid airbases and planes being bombed. .
Appreciate seeing you guys in my home country. It's been a David - Goliath situation for decades. Well, guess what. David has new friends and then some. Thank you for your service.
You mean how David had very good neutral relationships with Goliath for decades and because David spazzed out and joined NATO, Europe's most boring country now has nukes pointed at it. Great job suomalainen!
@@wellardme Yeah, we joined NATO for no reason whatsoever. Funny how Russia attacking Ukraine does not seem to register with you. Putin said the reason was to stop NATO expansion. Result was 2 previously neutral countries joining. Job well done, huh? BTW Russia has had nukes only 110km from NATO border in Severomorsk for decades and nobody cares.
@russ254 the world loves Americans. Even Russians do. The US government and big business are despised, just like my British government and world leaders who are part of the WEF deep state mafia; those messing up the world for their warped agenda. And we little people suffer for it.
Good to see some F-35s landing so we can get experience with handling them! Also cheers to the Eurofighters chilling out at the other end of the runway!
small debris will just pass through the bypass and avoid the most sensitive part of the engine. this is what happens to water and ice in any other jet aircraft
AFAIK these roads are pretty thoroughly cleaned prior to these exercises taking place. And inspected during, so it must be dust that gets stirred up during the exercise.
I think most european NATO countries have that. Here in Germany we have the same on some parts of the Autobahn. Not that if it would have mattered a lot as in case the cold war had become hot the USSR and the USA would have dropped most of their A-Bombs here...
Well, considering Finnish Air Force had to take off from fields and lakes (also frozen ones) during the WW2, it would be surprise if not every possibility would be used for advantage.
Good for Finland! GDP is already going down since Finland joined NATO at April 4, 2023. _No time wasted! Congratulations!_ 👈🤣🤣🤣 *GDP per capita, PPP (constant 2021 international $)* - - - - - - - - - - 2022 - - - - 2023 - - - - Finland 58.402 57.506 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - P.S. Could you guess 2024 interim forecast for Finland's economy according to the official Oct 8, 2024 statement from Bank of Finland? It is really not too hard to guess! Just try it! ... and you will see forecasted farther decline of Finland's GDP in 2024. Good luck in NATO! P.S. - II. BONUS! Enjoy old, but still the very enlightening song called _"It is not evening yet!"_ from singer Laima Vaikule from Latvia. She is singing in Russian language, you could easy find this video on RUclips by this title: *Лайма Вайкуле - Ещё не вечер.avi* P.S. - III. Will add a few words just in case if someone didn't get a hint why song _"It is not evening yet!"_ *from Latvian singer* is very enlightening for Finland who joined NATO recently... Look at the numbers below. Numbers don''t lie. Percent change in population from 1991 to 2013. *👉11 WORST👈 out of all 193 countries in the world.* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Population at the end of year, millions Recent (or wants to become) # Country 1991 2013 Change, % a member of the EU and NATO ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 183. Croatia 4.69 4.27 -9.24% Yes 184. Albania 3.28 2.90 -11.38% Yes 185. Ukraine 52.06 45.43 -12.74% Yes 186. Romania 23.00 19.98 -13.12% Yes 187. Estonia 1.57 1.32 -15.58% Yes 188. Bulgaria 8.63 7.27 -15.84% Yes 189. Armenia 3.51 2.90 -17.34% No 190. Bosnia and Hertz. 4.37 3.54 -18.92% Yes 191. Lithuania 3.70 2.96 -20.15% Yes 192. Georgia 4.84 3.72 -23.12% Yes 193. Latvia 2.65 2.01 -24.07% Yes // _"It is not evening yet!"_ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Noticed a trend? Why is that? Perhaps someone could say that this is just a coincidence... for 10 cases out of 11? You must be joking, right? 2. The year 1991 was chosen because it was the first year that Ukraine began to exist as an independent country. Initially I prepared these figures during a conversation with a Ukrainian who tried to convince me how good it would be for Ukraine to join the EU and NATO. 3. The year 2013 was taken for comparison specifically to show the situation in Ukraine *before even significantly worse consequences* happened in Ukraine for the population change after the 2014 coup. *👉 Why, among all 193 countries in the world, among the 11 worst in terms of percentage population loss, 10 countries are recent members of EU and NATO or countries that want to be members of EU and NATO? Is it because the worst countries become members of the EU and NATO in recent years or is it because these countries become the worst after they started moving towards EU and NATO?* *👉 What chances are that in upcoming 10-20 years Finland will be in this list of worst countries in terms of percentage population loss?*
It’s so nice to give the viewers the possibility to see what a pilot feels how it is to have the controls of an airplane of this magnitude. Free as a bird, do what you want and have that specific feeling of one more dimension, up or down, in stead of left, right or back or forward. Nice👍👍
@@IIISASA maybe that’s the reason I never became an astronaut cuz I’d never stayed conscious for too long in the centrifuge and completely lost it at 10 G🤷🏻 answers that you question?
In some countries in Europe the highways are built in the way on purpose to strengthen, long, straight sections for the jet fighter to land. In a possible war the Russians would bomb the airports first, so the jet fighters have to be able to land many other places. The Gripen fighter jet was designed to be able to land even a better road next to a forest and it can be reloaded and rearmed by 3 men in 15 minutes and it can go back for a new mission.
@@gaborbakos7058 Same way was used in Soviet union, in my country we have at least one similar highway designed as temporary military runway, it was build during we was under Russian influence, guess east Germany have few of those too from that era.
These are common emergency landing spot and as needed military airstrips spots which are part of road network. Extra wide pieces of road just for planes. Seems like even wikipedia has location of 18-21 of these "varalaskupaikka' additional landing spots. There are actually less even active airports as Finavia has 20 locations, additionally there are other 4 extra airports. There are multitude of recreational landing places purposes with random use. Therefore these add the capacity of landing and refueling places if needed.
It's basically a 6-lane road but only two of the innermost are used by regular traffic. There's similar road close where I live and it's a 4-lane road, for passing, with wide 'extra' lanes on both sides. They are in public use and shoud emergency happen a public announcement can be given to all drivers via radio (it actually cuts through any broadcasts and music played, scared the c**p out of me when I first heard such announcement).
Pilots will be like "Enemy sighted!" Shortly after "Oh sorry it was just one of many mosquito splats on windshield" I even wiped and scratched my phone screen watching this video.
@russ254 Nope. A huge assett instead. Russia is a huge vulnerability for the world peace and that's why Fin and Nato finally got married instrad of being engaged. Russia is a criminal state with cowardly escapistic mind set of the people. If they wanna something in Finland they will be easily destroyed. Can't win even unprepared Ukraine. Pitiful, almost comical.
Excellent concept of endless runways everywhere, using part of the road structure, with a few units that are easy to hide. They even serve to increase the volume of aircraft in the air simultaneously to astronomical numbers in a short time.
There is about a dozen of these. They have underground structures storing ammunition, fuel and electricity generation. These widened roads also act as an emergency landing strips to commercial aircrafts.
How cool is this!! 👍🏽😎 when the last rock star pilot departed I was looking for his wing man. He started making that right turn and thought “oh there he is.” Nope! it was bug splatter! 😂🦟 Those F-35 are Sssssick looking!!!!
When I was a child, we often drove through one of these reserve airstrips on our way to visit grandpa. It's interesting to see one from a pilot's POV. Although I was aware even then that these are meant for fighter planes, I always wondered if a large passenger plane could land on one, if it had to. It would be better than crashing into a forest, of course, but how much better, I still wonder.
This is so awesome. Dream job really. Flying, surfing the clouds and serving your country. Too bad I'm too tall for that...Plus, after a laser eye surgery, I don't think I would pass the medical.
There are several roads in the middle of nowhere in Finland that have been made straight and widened precisely to allow small aircraft, more particularly military aircraft, to land and take off. It's part of Finland's military defense strategy.
Thank you for this, our Friends and Allys from US of A! 🙏👍 🇺🇸 Just awesome. ☺️ I would be concerned the debris cravel etc. sucked in engines down the line.. maybe it would be good to blast the road first with only one plane few times before going in line like that.. But maybe they know what they are doing! 👍😊
Well they do blow clean it before. It is kinda concern. Then again should ones plane not be able to handle that amount of dust on runway, is it really a war plane. When war is going on, people have better things to do than microscope fod walk the strip. Like actually refueling and rearming the planes and be out of there before the enemy cruise missile lands, should they hand around on single strip too long.
Absolutely. They try to remove rocks/dirt/debris from the roadway before doing this. Those engines cost money and frankly, training new pilots doesn't come cheap either!
@@devilsoffspring5519 NO no no no no dust doesnt do anything to the engines, what the freak do you think happens when they flying 50ft in afghanistan 6 times the speed in the desert nothing but sanddddddddddddd EVERYWHEREEEEEEE....only thing it affects is the bleed source that could let the tiny sand particles inside when the plane has stopped not when its moving
Don't know how they kept all the reindeers out of the way though. If Rudolf & Co happened upon that stretch of the road, it would have been carnage. Stubborn buggers, they yield to no-one.
It erodes the leading edges of the fan & compressor blades with every landing and takeoff. After a while the rotor imbalance is detected by the engine control unit (vibration sensors) and the ground crew finds a warning code in normal maintenance. Remove and overhaul engine. These engines are extremely complex and expensive, but they are NOT that fragile. They can inhale a variety of crap over time and eventually they get a "check engine light" for the ground crew to sit and think about when they're on the can. If it shows up after the next flight they'll probably remove the engine and send it out for overhaul. Inspect and replace blades if needed, balance rotor assembly, possibly new rotor bearings, run up on test stand and sign off. Stuff it back in and they're ready to rock 'n roll
Tens of highway strips, tens of minor airports and civil airstrips. Not really the length of border being the problem, but long and narrow geography. Longest distance from Russia on mainland like 500 km. Meaning within generic cruise missile distance. Any air base hanging around in single place too long will have cruise missiles raining. So instead it is cat and mouse of Finnish Airfoce using each strip couple hours before ground element moves to new one. So that either missile lands on empty strip or there is no attack in first place due to Russians not figuring out the location in time. Hence why lots of strips. Each such swap must have myriad of suitable alternates, so it isn't obvious what the choice of next strip will be. Plus lots so it isn't feasible to just bombard all of them all the time. Since hiding the existence of the physical strips is not possible in age of satellite photography.
@@a64738 It's likely legal in rural areas due to the lack of other cargo infrastructure; there are many places in Alaska with no on-land route to them, so the majority of needed goods have to be shipped via aircraft, typically smaller bush planes that can handle the low temperatures and tight mountain flying, which can land on virtually any stretch of road or clearing. Some, like the Cessna Grand Caravan, even can land in water (they are amphibious), increasing the locales they can be used to deliver to.
You always need to adapt to local circumstances, i think your analysis is mostly right, but i'd think there would be some places in Japan as well where it could be done, even if not as widely as in Finland. It's always good to have contingencies. We are also helped that 70% of the country is forests, so you can hide equipment in forests nearby the roads to provide the infrastructure. When i served we trained in creating communications network to temporary road air force base, without the aircraft on-site, it wasn't easy to spot the base from air.
You cannot compare F35 and Gripens in terms of dispersed operations; Gripen only needs 8x800m of straight road (something like 1/3 or at least less than half of the depicted runway in this image), and does not require meticulous cleaning to prevent FOD. Not to mention the difference in needed ground crew (6 for Gripen, of which most can be conscripts) and equipment (2 regular trucks for Gripen). That said, Sweden has almost 20% more area than Japan, but less than 1/10th of the population; needless to say, the available infrastructure and staffing is wildly different, and as such one of Gripens real strengths might not be as valuable in Japanese conditions.
maybe the USAF should invest in some -B models. For sure all the desirable sections of highway (length of highway and distance to targets) will themselves become targets if things do go hot.
It's highly unlikely that things will ever get that bad. The Ukrainian Air Force has been operational for 2.5+ years now while the Russians have been doing everything they can to stop it. And I don't think Ukraine has many highway landing strips. Or any. At least I haven't heard.
If it ever came down to a mainland invasion of the USA then they'd just use nuclear weapons (Strategic Air Command). Fighter jets have their uses but aren't the main deterrent to invasion of the United States nor would they be the major deciding factor in a full-scale attack on American soil. The invading country would just get themselves vaporized pulling that sort of shit.
I drive on that piece of highway now and then. It's unreal seeing a familiar road with this huge technological marvel rolling on it.
so cool...
Where do you live?
@@infrapunaperse The vid says it is near Russia so he must be in Finland. Then again, in almost every video on youtube somebody says that they are there every day etc so who knows
Bit too huge technological marvel.. One of the top 3 most expensive aircraft by the unit cost and maintenance, just from seeing little dust on the tarmac it gets itchy and blows a turbine if landing strip is not perfect... Sure it has stealth, but even with the emergency landing strips like highways, if war starts those will be bombed the hell and back very fast and there next airfields are on Sweden. We should have bought the Swedish Gripens since those can land and lift off from pretty much potato field no problem. The stealth means nothing if you cant get the aircraft on the sky or run out of range and then cant react to incoming treats... but of course we bankrupt the nation with shit like F35...
@@Hellsong89 I think I remember hearing somewhere that they use the highways such as seen in this one but also more rural roads which are just doable for the fighter jets
Nice to see the pilot's view there. Very scenic country. While fueling he should have got out and got a Christmas tree to bring home. The guy at the gas station forgot to do the windshield.
Grab some duty free
The mosquito is the national bird of Finland.
@@HeadPack I hate mosquitos, here we have a lot of them in the summer, but it is even worse in Finland.
Strangely enough we have had several summers here now with very little and this summer practically speaking no mosquitos.
*Slaps the canopy of the f35* Yeah, this bad boy can carry a Christmas tree no problems on its weapon bay.
WE should have interstate sections in various places set up like this.
This pilot probably never imagined going on a nice weekend drive in the woods… in a jet.
All the finnish militaty pilots train this again and again and again. That's how it's been since the 60's. Those highways are built that way all over the country so that they can be used as airfields. Just google f-18 highway finland etc. Or mig-21 or Dragens. Same in Sweden and I suppose in Norway and in Russia too.
But landing on airfield that is a highway is easier than landing on aircrafr carrier that us finns don't have.
I love this camera angle. It’s typically hard to see what it looks like for the occupants of the planes, but this is amazing. Really feels like you’re apart of the jet.
but that aint nothing like the view you see from the cockpit, you would only see the verrrrrry tip of the point of that plane, you wouldnt seee no bit of the nose
The glareshield is at the bottom of your chin and im 6'1
In Switzerland we had the landing of F/18s this summer on a statestreet. Impressive.
Do you have these widened roads especially made for landing military aircraft in Switzerland too?
@@Die4dutch2 we just use suitable highway sections.
@@Die4dutch2
No. They emptyed a highway specialy for one day operation. Great to watch.
That is a familiar sight in Finland too as we use the F/18 currently
@@Die4dutch2 We have them in Germany. you just have to remove the central guardrail between the two directions then you have a runway. on some highways the fuel stops are also designed so support aircraft.
I remember when the service stations would clean your windshields for free.
And check under the hood. 😂
That was when gas was 40 cents a gallon!
@@plazmarevenge2098 Hah! Youngster, I’m talking 32 cents and sometimes, in a gas war (remember those 😢), under 30 cents.😜
And check for oil and water! 😄
@@kurttate9446I paid 17 cents for a gallon of gas in Dallas in 1972 during a gas war. I had a motorcycle in the Navy then and could put 2 gallons in the tank, buy a coke and still have change from a dollar.
Glad they actually faced the cameras foward, I don't like videos where the camera is facing backwards toward the pilot.
Wow. This is probably the best F35 footage I've seen. Thanks!
Look at the left wing area. Thats not f35 .48sec
Right wing 😂
I thought it was the worse footage I've ever seen. Well boring.
@@mrmando69 And what do you want me to do? Go into combat like in Top Gun?
@norman4076 lol. No, I wouldn't want you to get involved in a rich man's sport.
At the end pilot got a ticket for speeding 👮♂️
Speed limit is 50 miles/hr. but the F-35 take off at 150 knots not miles .
Got a ticket with 8 km/h above.... 60€ 😭
You can’t get a speeding ticket when the radar can’t see you.
No front number plates on fighters, luckily. The speed camera can't get you!
Really gives a new meaning to "Speed limit enforced by aircraft"
Imagine being a squirrel in that forrest thinking WTF is THIS!!!???
😂😂
Oi!! Knock it of the racket! Mah furr is blowing of for pete sake! 😂
Nuts)
@@mad-marx-3 Peanut the squirrel?
I'm thinking the Finnish brown bears are also quite annoyed. And even the moose that daily skip over that road and play moose vs car games to pass the time are probably taking a sick day and lounging on a mossy bedrock far away from that road.
We have approximately 20 of these widened highway straights in Finland.
WoW I live here and I only thought there was about 5 or 6
20? More like 200
@@1P0T +there are a many spots that are easy to convert into emergency airports if needed
You're about to have a whole lot of genetic diversity there too now 😊
@@D64nz Among young people it is possible!
スタッフ「給油中はエンジン停止をお願いします～」
パイロット「えっ、窓拭いてくれないの」
スタッフ「吸い殻ありますかぁ？」
スタッフ「すみませ～ん、会員カードかアプリインストールしてますかぁ？」
実況「あっとドライブスルーペナルティが出されていますよ！？…ピット作業違反。」
解説「あー、ピット作業中はエンジン止めてないといけないんですよ。安全なんちゃら違反になります。」
実況「これはもったいない！」
LOL! Absolutely right there!
The Finnish are bad ass mf's. Yay!!! NATO!! Yayyyyy!! I'm Swedish and so proud of Sweden and Finland.
We in Finland are also VERY happy that our big bro SWE joined also! It completes FIN joining, makes us way much more stronger together with "the Dad" being around here now too, as seen in this vid. 1+1= 3 🙏
@@RoisinT2 wtf u talking about? we finns are big bros if u think about army.
@@RazzeBlomma Well yes, but if you take into consideration the air force, the navy, the amount of population, the size of our economies, general global cultural influence and impact as well as quite a few other aspects as well, it's understandable that people may consider Finland and us Finns "the little brothers" to Sweden and the Swedes. I find or feel no bad intention here, myself.
Почему ребята выше, гордятся....что у них есть старший брат, который их защитит, я никогда не был в Швеции, но был в Финляндии, прекрасная страна, прекрасные люди....зачем вы превращаетесь в куколдов?!((((
@Александр-у9с7х Kuten huomaat täällä puhutaan Englantia joten otahan vauhtia uudelleen..
This really gives a feeling for the "freight-train" momentum of landing a performance aircraft on such a narrow strip. Incredible machine.
Its not narrow. Its 50m wide and 3500m long.....
@@christera1116 it is 30m wide.
Tout les avions de chasses en sont capable mais pas tous les pilotes
Here in 🇫🇮 all are, the practice it regularly
im trying to imagine what its like watching this video and seeking fulfillment trying to correct others on runway size
That looks like so much fun. I wish I could had been a fighter pilot.
Don't we all?...
ME TOO!!!!
not with this stress level :)
no kidding lol
Great to see this concept of finding an austere location being used as a landing spot to refuel and go!! Important type of training for the future conflicts.
It is not just about randomly finding a suitable piece. Parts of the road network are specifically designed and built to work as backup runways and airforce trains to scatter to these locations in case of a war to avoid airbases and planes being bombed. .
Man, that thing takes off quick
If this isn't one of the smoothest, slickest looking aircrafts in the world.
In the past, there was also a service for the windshield when filling up. Would have needed it here too! 😅
Appreciate seeing you guys in my home country. It's been a David - Goliath situation for decades.
Well, guess what. David has new friends and then some.
Thank you for your service.
You mean how David had very good neutral relationships with Goliath for decades and because David spazzed out and joined NATO, Europe's most boring country now has nukes pointed at it. Great job suomalainen!
@@wellardme Yeah, we joined NATO for no reason whatsoever. Funny how Russia attacking Ukraine does not seem to register with you.
Putin said the reason was to stop NATO expansion. Result was 2 previously neutral countries joining. Job well done, huh?
BTW Russia has had nukes only 110km from NATO border in Severomorsk for decades and nobody cares.
I pray no US lives are ever lost on a country that hates us.
@russ254 the world loves Americans. Even Russians do. The US government and big business are despised, just like my British government and world leaders who are part of the WEF deep state mafia; those messing up the world for their warped agenda. And we little people suffer for it.
@@russ254 What are you implying?
Good to see some F-35s landing so we can get experience with handling them! Also cheers to the Eurofighters chilling out at the other end of the runway!
during takeoff, I'm surprised that the 2nd F-35's intakes can handle all the dust and debris stirred up by the first one
This. They are supposed to be pretty sensitive
We should assume they got sent to maintenance for awhile before another flight again 😂
I think they were evaluating exactly this
small debris will just pass through the bypass and avoid the most sensitive part of the engine. this is what happens to water and ice in any other jet aircraft
AFAIK these roads are pretty thoroughly cleaned prior to these exercises taking place. And inspected during, so it must be dust that gets stirred up during the exercise.
I read that South Korea and Sweden had sections of highways designed as landing strips. I had no idea that Finland had done the same. Smart move!
We have 800 miles border with Russia so we do that since WW2...
I think most european NATO countries have that. Here in Germany we have the same on some parts of the Autobahn. Not that if it would have mattered a lot as in case the cold war had become hot the USSR and the USA would have dropped most of their A-Bombs here...
@@TheMadSqu Yep. I think Finland do that since WW2.
Well, considering Finnish Air Force had to take off from fields and lakes (also frozen ones) during the WW2, it would be surprise if not every possibility would be used for advantage.
@@TheMadSqu But ourlanding strips here in German were never so clever as the swedish BAS60 and BAS90 System.
Nice to see the NATO integration. USA, Finland and Sweden (not featured but we've used dispersed basing since forever) makes for a strong team. 💪
Finland was actually integrated years ago. Google JEF
There were also German Eurofighters. Just before the landings you can see them at the bottom right
What nonsense. Finland and Sweden offer nothing but vulnerability to NATO.
Good for Finland! GDP is already going down since Finland joined NATO at April 4, 2023.
_No time wasted! Congratulations!_ 👈🤣🤣🤣
*GDP per capita, PPP (constant 2021 international $)*
- - - - - - - - - - 2022 - - - - 2023 - - - -
Finland 58.402 57.506
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P.S. Could you guess 2024 interim forecast for Finland's economy according to the official Oct 8, 2024 statement from Bank of Finland? It is really not too hard to guess! Just try it! ... and you will see forecasted farther decline of Finland's GDP in 2024. Good luck in NATO!
P.S. - II. BONUS! Enjoy old, but still the very enlightening song called _"It is not evening yet!"_ from singer Laima Vaikule from Latvia. She is singing in Russian language, you could easy find this video on RUclips by this title:
*Лайма Вайкуле - Ещё не вечер.avi*
P.S. - III. Will add a few words just in case if someone didn't get a hint why song _"It is not evening yet!"_ *from Latvian singer* is very enlightening for Finland who joined NATO recently... Look at the numbers below. Numbers don''t lie.
Percent change in population from 1991 to 2013. *👉11 WORST👈 out of all 193 countries in the world.*
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Population at the end of year, millions Recent (or wants to become)
# Country 1991 2013 Change, % a member of the EU and NATO
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183. Croatia 4.69 4.27 -9.24% Yes
184. Albania 3.28 2.90 -11.38% Yes
185. Ukraine 52.06 45.43 -12.74% Yes
186. Romania 23.00 19.98 -13.12% Yes
187. Estonia 1.57 1.32 -15.58% Yes
188. Bulgaria 8.63 7.27 -15.84% Yes
189. Armenia 3.51 2.90 -17.34% No
190. Bosnia and Hertz. 4.37 3.54 -18.92% Yes
191. Lithuania 3.70 2.96 -20.15% Yes
192. Georgia 4.84 3.72 -23.12% Yes
193. Latvia 2.65 2.01 -24.07% Yes // _"It is not evening yet!"_
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1. Noticed a trend? Why is that? Perhaps someone could say that this is just a coincidence... for 10 cases out of 11? You must be joking, right?
2. The year 1991 was chosen because it was the first year that Ukraine began to exist as an independent country. Initially I prepared these figures during a conversation with a Ukrainian who tried to convince me how good it would be for Ukraine to join the EU and NATO.
3. The year 2013 was taken for comparison specifically to show the situation in Ukraine *before even significantly worse consequences* happened in Ukraine for the population change after the 2014 coup.
*👉 Why, among all 193 countries in the world, among the 11 worst in terms of percentage population loss, 10 countries are recent members of EU and NATO or countries that want to be members of EU and NATO? Is it because the worst countries become members of the EU and NATO in recent years or is it because these countries become the worst after they started moving towards EU and NATO?*
*👉 What chances are that in upcoming 10-20 years Finland will be in this list of worst countries in terms of percentage population loss?*
@@FirstNameLastName-hy1pf Oh wow you must be Russian
finally getting some f-35 cockpit views
It’s so nice to give the viewers the possibility to see what a pilot feels how it is to have the controls of an airplane of this magnitude. Free as a bird, do what you want and have that specific feeling of one more dimension, up or down, in stead of left, right or back or forward. Nice👍👍
Do you know what 9G is in sharp movement?
@@IIISASA maybe that’s the reason I never became an astronaut cuz I’d never stayed conscious for too long in the centrifuge and completely lost it at 10 G🤷🏻 answers that you question?
@@prosanis1216 Ok! 😀🤐
I was hoping to see the Typhoon take of and land as well. Great video
There is a video where F35s, Typhpoons and F18s land/take off.
Such a impressive aircraft. Its amazing we have them in the scandinavia now
How cute, the Finns even have a nice highway rest area for jets. Just need a Circle K there.
Sharks have fins, Finland has Finns.
In some countries in Europe the highways are built in the way on purpose to strengthen, long, straight sections for the jet fighter to land. In a possible war the Russians would bomb the airports first, so the jet fighters have to be able to land many other places. The Gripen fighter jet was designed to be able to land even a better road next to a forest and it can be reloaded and rearmed by 3 men in 15 minutes and it can go back for a new mission.
@@gaborbakos7058 Same way was used in Soviet union, in my country we have at least one similar highway designed as temporary military runway, it was build during we was under Russian influence, guess east Germany have few of those too from that era.
Beautiful, formidable aircraft.
These are common emergency landing spot and as needed military airstrips spots which are part of road network. Extra wide pieces of road just for planes. Seems like even wikipedia has location of 18-21 of these "varalaskupaikka' additional landing spots. There are actually less even active airports as Finavia has 20 locations, additionally there are other 4 extra airports. There are multitude of recreational landing places purposes with random use. Therefore these add the capacity of landing and refueling places if needed.
この迫力好き
さすがにすごい、機体の性能もパイロットの技量も
Thanks for sharing such an amazing footage! Bgrds, A380 Driver
You should try this with your A380.
We are mentioning now what we drive? Ok. 🤷🏻♂️
Best Regards, Toyota Prius driver.
@@koen6812do you know how you know when there is a pilot in the thread?
He will tell you.
Wow! Thank you for this! Looks amazing! Greetings from 🇫🇮💕
高速道路の一区間だけど、きちんと滑走路としての規格を満足したつくりなのね。
ただILSはもちろんだけど、PAPIみたいな灯火類が見当たらん状態で着陸するのは難易度高いね。
多分だけど旅客機とかより戦闘機のほうがパスだいぶ高いから、あんまりPAPIとかはアテにできないのかなと
バリエーションの機体が空母に着艦することを思えば、かなり高いパスでもそれほどダメージはないだろうし⋯
Well, the F35 has night vision.
直線道路を使った滑走路は聞いたことあったけど、道路の幅思ったより遥かに狭いね・・・
４車線とかもっと幅が広い道路だと思ってた。
It's basically a 6-lane road but only two of the innermost are used by regular traffic. There's similar road close where I live and it's a 4-lane road, for passing, with wide 'extra' lanes on both sides. They are in public use and shoud emergency happen a public announcement can be given to all drivers via radio (it actually cuts through any broadcasts and music played, scared the c**p out of me when I first heard such announcement).
Pilots will be like "Enemy sighted!" Shortly after "Oh sorry it was just one of many mosquito splats on windshield"
I even wiped and scratched my phone screen watching this video.
Glad to have those birds in Europe
Finland is a huge vulnerability to NATO for very little advantage.
Hey, don't talk about fighter pilots like that!
@@russ254nope. You are mixing Finland and Bulgaria.......
@russ254
Nope. A huge assett instead. Russia is a huge vulnerability for the world peace and that's why Fin and Nato finally got married instrad of being engaged.
Russia is a criminal state with cowardly escapistic mind set of the people.
If they wanna something in Finland they will be easily destroyed. Can't win even unprepared Ukraine. Pitiful, almost comical.
PAPIも無いのに良く降りれるな、マーシャラーのハンドサインが興味深い、アフターバーナーでアスファルト焼けてそう、そしてここまで見せてくれることに感謝。
If the F-35 A model can do this, the B model, with VTOL capability, or the navalized C model, with larger wings, should have no problems.
I've never seen it without snow on it it looks nice there.
Excellent concept of endless runways everywhere, using part of the road structure, with a few units that are easy to hide. They even serve to increase the volume of aircraft in the air simultaneously to astronomical numbers in a short time.
There is about a dozen of these. They have underground structures storing ammunition, fuel and electricity generation. These widened roads also act as an emergency landing strips to commercial aircrafts.
C'est INCROYABLE comme c'est utile ! j'adore !
How cool is this!! 👍🏽😎 when the last rock star pilot departed I was looking for his wing man. He started making that right turn and thought “oh there he is.” Nope! it was bug splatter! 😂🦟
Those F-35 are Sssssick looking!!!!
Those wake vortices kicking up the burnt rubber smoke on landing 😮
Well thats one cool way of cleaning a highway..
beautiful piece of engineering
When I was a child, we often drove through one of these reserve airstrips on our way to visit grandpa. It's interesting to see one from a pilot's POV. Although I was aware even then that these are meant for fighter planes, I always wondered if a large passenger plane could land on one, if it had to. It would be better than crashing into a forest, of course, but how much better, I still wonder.
00:42にダッシュボード上に見えるHUDみたいな機器はなんだろう？ハーフミラー構造っぽいのでパイロットが使う物っぽいですが・・・
小さなコンバイナーはFCAM(FIxed Camera)に組み込まれているので、BRU(Boresight Reticle Unit)のセンサーの一つかと思われ。
それかカメラ映像に合成するHUDシンボル生成用のミニHUDかも。
どちらにせよパイロットが直接使用するものではないですね
I don't know what it is.
This is so awesome. Dream job really. Flying, surfing the clouds and serving your country. Too bad I'm too tall for that...Plus, after a laser eye surgery, I don't think I would pass the medical.
2:30 when they say “speed limit enforced by aircraft” this is what they mean
There are several roads in the middle of nowhere in Finland that have been made straight and widened precisely to allow small aircraft, more particularly military aircraft, to land and take off. It's part of Finland's military defense strategy.
Thank you for this, our Friends and Allys from US of A! 🙏👍 🇺🇸
Just awesome. ☺️
I would be concerned the debris cravel etc. sucked in engines down the line.. maybe it would be good to blast the road first with only one plane few times before going in line like that.. But maybe they know what they are doing! 👍😊
And impressive take off.
Is the dust and debris from the road a concern in this kind of exercises?
Well they do blow clean it before. It is kinda concern. Then again should ones plane not be able to handle that amount of dust on runway, is it really a war plane. When war is going on, people have better things to do than microscope fod walk the strip. Like actually refueling and rearming the planes and be out of there before the enemy cruise missile lands, should they hand around on single strip too long.
Absolutely. They try to remove rocks/dirt/debris from the roadway before doing this. Those engines cost money and frankly, training new pilots doesn't come cheap either!
@@devilsoffspring5519 NO no no no no dust doesnt do anything to the engines, what the freak do you think happens when they flying 50ft in afghanistan 6 times the speed in the desert nothing but sanddddddddddddd EVERYWHEREEEEEEE....only thing it affects is the bleed source that could let the tiny sand particles inside when the plane has stopped not when its moving
Got that 1970s camera quality at 6:10, real aesthetic.
The P&W F135 powering this thing is an absolute monster. Great video.
It also buzzsaws like the old JT8D-15
And it’s going to be replaced with an even better General Electric XA100 Engine
The landing was awesome. No ILS? The 2nd F-35 had to catch some dust at take-off. Great video. Thank you for sharing.
Old good practice returns. Nice video and clever decision🎉
Daily life in Finland.
كم انت قوية يا امريكا.بورك لك في ما أمدّك *لله*به .
that sound is awesome, I thought servers sounded nice, this is a whole new level
So smart we are practicing doing this
停止から離陸まで10秒ってのも凄い！
Greetings from Finland💥
Yup, there are quite a few bits of highway in Europe that were designed and built to function as wartime airstrips
Cool seeing how much the trees were moving just idling.
Das haben wir in den 70er und 80er Jahren bei der NVA mit der MiG-21 auch gemacht 😔
Og Saab fly gør det hurtigere på mindre plads 😊
Das habt ihr in den 40er Jahren bei der LW mit der Me-262 auch gemacht
I think that pilot is kool as they come incredible job there good on yaz defo team work making the dream work
No traffic, and parking seems pretty easy to find. Seems like a nice place.
Don't know how they kept all the reindeers out of the way though. If Rudolf & Co happened upon that stretch of the road, it would have been carnage. Stubborn buggers, they yield to no-one.
these games are getting better
Great footage...👍
In sweden wo do this on roads to, just a bit wider then normal roads
So pretty and pretty bird as well! Though this comes from the enemy, as I trained with the AAA artillerists back in those hoods two decades ago.
Awesome stuff! Glad to be flying them here in :au:
i wonder what all that dust from the preceding F35 taking off does to the compressor blades.
It erodes the leading edges of the fan & compressor blades with every landing and takeoff. After a while the rotor imbalance is detected by the engine control unit (vibration sensors) and the ground crew finds a warning code in normal maintenance. Remove and overhaul engine.
These engines are extremely complex and expensive, but they are NOT that fragile. They can inhale a variety of crap over time and eventually they get a "check engine light" for the ground crew to sit and think about when they're on the can. If it shows up after the next flight they'll probably remove the engine and send it out for overhaul. Inspect and replace blades if needed, balance rotor assembly, possibly new rotor bearings, run up on test stand and sign off. Stuff it back in and they're ready to rock 'n roll
Awesome video!
Finland has these highway landing strips because we always knew that the enemy comes from the east.
Also in Sweden have some highway landing strips
driven trough that strip many times going "surely no one is going to land here ever" :)
5:20 In between the dash and windshield is the world's fastest stealthiest spider 😂
So awesome to see F-35s at my old neighbourhoods!
Great, my Amazon delivery arrived
Just noticed that the F35s are from LN (RAF Lakenheath) I live quite close to the base.
名前は分からないけど滑走路の左脇に設置されてる適正な高度でアプローチできてるかどうか示すライトのやつがないみたいだけど、アレがなくてもオーバーランせずにきちんと着陸できるんだね。
It is just a road for cars. In case the airport runway is bombed out.
PAPI is the acronym for the lights you're mentioning.
@@edNdr Yes, that's it! Thanks, mate ;)
Just wondering how the second F-35 was sitting behind the other one sucking in all that debris without it affecting it before takeoff? 🤔
these jets are monstrous i didnt even realize he was touching i thought there were a couple of meters till he touches down
Seems like a lot of debris coming off the road and shoulder. I wonder how much of a risk that is for intake ingestion. Pretty robust.
It probably means the engines need removal and overhaul much more often than flying from a proper airfield. They'll put up with it for a while though.
I live 60 km from this place. :)
Huh, crazy. I never thought I'd hear the F-35's turbofan actually "buzzsawing".
6:09 for some reason that gives me a 90s TV series feel with low budget CGI lol
800 miles border with Russia... You must have many places refuel etc. to your planes...
Tens of highway strips, tens of minor airports and civil airstrips. Not really the length of border being the problem, but long and narrow geography. Longest distance from Russia on mainland like 500 km. Meaning within generic cruise missile distance. Any air base hanging around in single place too long will have cruise missiles raining.
So instead it is cat and mouse of Finnish Airfoce using each strip couple hours before ground element moves to new one. So that either missile lands on empty strip or there is no attack in first place due to Russians not figuring out the location in time.
Hence why lots of strips. Each such swap must have myriad of suitable alternates, so it isn't obvious what the choice of next strip will be. Plus lots so it isn't feasible to just bombard all of them all the time. Since hiding the existence of the physical strips is not possible in age of satellite photography.
It looks like the highway is designed as a dual function. For car road and airplane strip
キャノピーってこんなに汚れるんだね。
ワイパーとウォッシャー液があれば便利だな。
They cut out the part where the local sheriff cited them for landing an aircraft on a public road. 😆
Just found out that in Alaska and also some of the other less populated states in USA it is actually legal to land on public roads with airplanes...
There are very harsh fines for overspeed in Finland.
@@a64738 It's likely legal in rural areas due to the lack of other cargo infrastructure; there are many places in Alaska with no on-land route to them, so the majority of needed goods have to be shipped via aircraft, typically smaller bush planes that can handle the low temperatures and tight mountain flying, which can land on virtually any stretch of road or clearing. Some, like the Cessna Grand Caravan, even can land in water (they are amphibious), increasing the locales they can be used to deliver to.
Man, you got some kind of bug juice on that canopy!!
たまに「日本でもF35Bやグリペンで高速で離発着できるようにしろ」っていう人現れるけどこうやってみると滑走路として使える前提の道路なのがよくわかるな。舗装も違うし周りの木もしっかり切ってるし手前には駐機場もある山を削ったりトンネルや高架道路で山や都市を縫って走る日本の高速道路では現実的でないし今後新たに作る道路でもそれは同じだろう。それならば地方の空港での訓練を行う方が現実的だし、有事の際の運用だと空港防御（対空、対ゲリラ）も必要になるので戦闘機が飛ばせるだけですまない。結局既存の基地と空母の組み合わせがベターだな。
You always need to adapt to local circumstances, i think your analysis is mostly right, but i'd think there would be some places in Japan as well where it could be done, even if not as widely as in Finland. It's always good to have contingencies. We are also helped that 70% of the country is forests, so you can hide equipment in forests nearby the roads to provide the infrastructure.
When i served we trained in creating communications network to temporary road air force base, without the aircraft on-site, it wasn't easy to spot the base from air.
You cannot compare F35 and Gripens in terms of dispersed operations; Gripen only needs 8x800m of straight road (something like 1/3 or at least less than half of the depicted runway in this image), and does not require meticulous cleaning to prevent FOD. Not to mention the difference in needed ground crew (6 for Gripen, of which most can be conscripts) and equipment (2 regular trucks for Gripen).
That said, Sweden has almost 20% more area than Japan, but less than 1/10th of the population; needless to say, the available infrastructure and staffing is wildly different, and as such one of Gripens real strengths might not be as valuable in Japanese conditions.
maybe the USAF should invest in some -B models. For sure all the desirable sections of highway (length of highway and distance to targets) will themselves become targets if things do go hot.
It's highly unlikely that things will ever get that bad. The Ukrainian Air Force has been operational for 2.5+ years now while the Russians have been doing everything they can to stop it. And I don't think Ukraine has many highway landing strips. Or any. At least I haven't heard.
If it ever came down to a mainland invasion of the USA then they'd just use nuclear weapons (Strategic Air Command). Fighter jets have their uses but aren't the main deterrent to invasion of the United States nor would they be the major deciding factor in a full-scale attack on American soil. The invading country would just get themselves vaporized pulling that sort of shit.
This video probably should not be here. But luckily whole Finland looks like same 😂 so happy hunting to find that place in real life.
3:22 Sir, the reason I stopped you is that you were doing /INSERT OBSCENLY HIGH NUMBER HERE/ in a 130 km/h zone.