Can somebody more experienced & knowledgeable on air forces operations please tell me, why do we make runways... that can be taken out?
Why not make the whole place a 1km² concrete plaza, from where you can choose any stretch to do the run?
(Confession: the idea comes from GTA airport which are basically like that & players can land and takeoff wherever the fuck they like)
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I believe a thermobaric bomb or a bomb that ignites oxygen around it through aerosol. is the most powerful non nuclear weapon by area to be used in a missile . India doesn't have it in missile form although India has developed a 120mm thermobaric round, based on the high-explosive squash head (HESH) design, for use in its Arjun Main Battle Tank (MBT).Do we have any bomb which can flatten 1 square km from the impact point? I am talking about non nuclear bomb ofcourse. If it exists with India or any other country can it be mated to missiles likeand air-ground missiles, and glide bombs? I searched the internet. I got this.
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They have the big bomber planes to carry that load easily to drop it. This bomb cannot be carried by any conventional fighter jet. I am wondering anything similar exists which is less heavy to carry on a fighter jet?
We should try to figure out how we can increase the blast yield and blast radius with our conventional missiles. One bomb on Porki Air base entire air base should get flattened on impact.
Very expensive, material intensive, maintenance will be a nightmare, difficultly of air traffic control will increase a lot, aircrafts landing in multiple direction will increase chances of collision or something going wrong.
But it's possible to do it, but better alternatives exist, like dispersed runway strips or highways capable of being used as runways.
Well, your entire airstrip, especially parking and taxiways ( aka at the gates and the lanes where planes are taxi-ing to get in and out' IS an entire GTA-like concrete pad thats 100-200x by 1km long or so.
If you mean 'hey why dont we turn all tarmac on airport to runway quality and long' , its coz $$.
Ever been in a plane ? next time, pay attention to how much smoother a runaway is compared to general tarmac. its not only much more expensive to make, its also much more expensive to maintain once you are putting serious amounts of rubber on it - and believe it or not, you put FAR more rubber on taxi-way than on runaway, because of all those millions of tiny airport vehicles ferrying customs officials, baggage, passengers, cargo etc from plane's ass to the building - planes itself dont have nearly as many wheel as the vehicles coming to service them and this is a problem for runaways fyi. Not taxiways.
But hey,i you want to pay the construction company 5x the $$ for making ur airport and blow up budget by 10 fold ( coz airports are built by govt all the world over and govt is bueocratic sinkhole of $$), be my guest.
That's not a normal behaviour. Their whole army is obsessively dedicated to cutting clips, photoshopping, grabbing clips & all these theatrics. This is an army briefing ffs. At this point they're just begging. Their all braveries are are just lies & manipulation. Their citizens consume these nonsense at a mass scale. They really believe that they've achieve these shits.
Whole nation is deprived. Deprived off identity, self respect, literacy. India doesn't need to do anything. These clowns will expose themselves automatically.
I know when they were trying to modify MKI to carryI remember years back when they proposed this and wanted to modify a bunch of MKI to carry them , I thought it was a waste of time . I was proven wrong . These were devastating the last few days . The hit into the AWAC hanger jsut before the ceasefire was the incing on the cake .
my question is why do you care.Got it thanks.
I was under the impression fighter jets can land on rougher runways of airfields.
Can it really be costlier than an extra fighter jet ($100mil) to do this?
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If the grass in between a saved you have 3 to 4 parallel streches. If the only one get bombed than all of your $2000mil worth squadron is grounded till they fill up the holes (i doubt it'll be done to very high standards in the hurry)!
On a different note if India is so big drone power, why not we use some drones in traffic management on roads and safe lives pThe drone which came to Delhi was so surprised to see Delhi that it landed safely and now have changed identity to Traffic drone ..
This is referring to one of the air to ground strikes at the PAF bases, either a C130 or a SAAB AWACS. A-to-A kill will be informed by IAF in due course of timeThat means indeed we have got some hits.