I’ve eondered what the runway potential for our Inter-State highways is.
I don’t think we’ve ever thought that far ahead. In Germany the roadbeds can be 8 plus feet thick with different materials layered. The autobahn runways are placed where you have a couple miles of flat land. The four lanes come together to form one strip and metal dividers are inserted down the center. They are high enough so oncoming headlights are not visible, with the hammer head and fuel tanks on one end of that strip, big enough to enable refueling and rearming a couple aircraft at a time. In case of an emergency they could remove those two miles of dividers in a few hours with a couple bobcats or fork lifts. We’re too far away from our adversaries to worry about having to reconstitute our fighter force. It would go ICBMs long before it got to that point.