The aircraft has its landing gear ... mission profile certainly included return to base (if the base hasn't been nuked).
On the autobahns there are spots where a couple of fork lifts and several hours of work places can be converted to temporary runways. Unless you knew what you were looking for, you’d never see the hammer head and underground fuel storage at one end of the strip. Spotted at least six of them while I was there and suspect there were many more.