The landing on Hosio Highway Strip, Ranua, Finland, marked the first time in history a U.S. fighter aircraft operated on a Finnish highway strip. During the exercise U.S. Air Force Airmen expanded on Agile Combat Employment capabilities by learning austere environment aircraft landing and take-off operations and techniques from their Finnish counterparts.
On the very same day, German Eurofighter aircraft also took part in Banaa24, landing for the first time on the Hosio highway strip in Ranua, Laplan.
A critical skill the Scandi-hoovians have perfected. Really glad to see this from our F-35's.
Baana, known in NATO as “Imminent Field,” is the Finnish Air Force’s annual exercise focused on road base operations. According to the Finnish Air Force, the exercise is part of Finland’s strategy to maintain readiness by dispersing aircraft across various locations outside main bases, enhancing operational flexibility.
The Finns especially know the value of a strong, versatile military, having had the experience of brutal war with Russia, and having about a third of their ancestral territory now annexed by force as part of the Russian empire.
They know the Russians will one day try again, and they will be ready.
Haaka paalle!
ReplyDeleteIf they plan on being ready, they should have gotten better planes.
ReplyDeleteAn awful lot of people conflate the Soviet Unon with Russia; it's easy enough to do, but many do not believe Vladimir Vladimirovich' aims are those of his Soviet predecessors
ReplyDeleteVlad wants to be Stalin all over again. you can never ever trust communists or socialists.
DeleteRonald Reagan bankrupted the Russians/Soviets , and theyve never gotten over it, never gotten over their berlin wall being torn down.
Always crappy news reporting. Why did I have to do my own search to find the 48th FW comes out of Lakenheath AB UK? Really, was that so hard for the article writers to figure out?
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The F-35 is one of the biggest and most costly federal government boondoggles ever perpetrated on the American people.
ReplyDeleteJohn et al, I sort of agree on the idea that the F35 are boondoggle but we have to be honest with ourselves and admit that our frontline fighters are largely 50 year old designs. Our bomber force is far older. It would be like fighting the Vietnam War in Spads and Sopwith Camels. The current euro war is showing just how obsolete those things are.
ReplyDeleteIf it ain't broke, why try to fix it?
DeleteAll of the US military services including the almost 250-year-old USMC are being "modernized" and "upgraded." The "woke" weenies don't understand that in feeble attempts to facilitate change (what seems like simply for change's sake) what has severed us well for decades or even centuries. When a project is rushed, far too often, the results is far worse than what we had before.
If the Finns think they are more secure by joining NATO I have a bridge to sell.
ReplyDeleteWow. Explain your position.
DeleteAha explain this, what was wrong with neutrality for both the Swedes & Suomi? Show me on the doll where Putin touched you.
DeleteThere were our biolabs in the Ukraine, and not in those 2 countries. There is nothing to fear in both Sverige and Suomi except loosing their sovereignty and hard earned neutrality.
Perkele!
Tell the Finns there is nothing to fear from the Russians? History, my friend, has taught them otherwise. In Scandinavia there is only one nation that poses a serious threat, and that is Russia. Ignore that at your peril.
DeleteA threat only to their own people. A rapidly declining birthrate plus losing tens of thousands of young men for no real reason equals trouble on the horizon.
DeleteAfter getting ground down in Ukraine, Putin doesn't have much to threaten with short of nukes.
ReplyDeleteHa ha ha ha ha
DeleteThe goal again is to de-nazify and demilitarize the ukraine. The clearing will continue. Meanwhile, what was it, Russia is only a gas station with nukes?
DeleteI have a few career US Marine veteran buddies who spent time in Ukraine and swear up and down that they never - ever saw a Nazi or a Neo-Nazi flag while they were in-country. My reply was that they must have been too busy drinking and whoring to notice.
DeleteOh Russian trolls, you are so hilarious. Russia is actually a vast wasteland. With old rusting nukes that will probably explode on launch.
ReplyDeleteQuick comrade, get some more T-34s out of storage!
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