Makes it easier to pay a visit to Bible clinching gun owning Americans.
No posse comitatus for you.
Does the Michigan Militia have A-10’s? If not here’s a chance to take delivery. Choke on it Joe.
Why does the article suddenly segue from landings to power outage?
Maybe they’re expecting aircraft to fall out of the skies at some point so their practicing in advance. Then again, I though military aircraft were hardened against EMPs.
Yes, plans are in the works.
Red Dawn invasion by military on bitter clingers to God and guns.
Of course the A-10s can land on a paved roadway. Whether the C-146 can land safely depends on it’s payload and the thickness of the asphalt or concrete on the road. The Air Force already knows the limitations of both aircraft. Why are they doing this on a public road is beyond me.
Or possibly they’re thinking about instant airports/runways, so when the big airports/runways are out of commission. I dunno.
The Dept. of Defense was heavily involved in the
early planning of Eisenhower’s interstate highway system.
The movement of vehicles from military installations,
the evacuation of cities,
straight sections of highway for aircraft landings,
ingress and egress to ports, etc.
were all considered in the original construction plans.
They could take lessons from the teenager who landed his banner plane on the causeway bridge between ocean city and sommers point in NJ last week.
I retired as a C-130 loadmaster and I’ve never heard of the C-146.
This is an absolutely crazy stupid idea:
UNLESS the government is afraid we are about to be attacked in a manner so destructive that airports will be put completely out of use.
When you consider how many airports in the US can easily handle the aircraft that will take part in the test, it would take total warfare with disastrous results for all of these airports to become unusable.
For instance google the Alpena airport. They can handle anything flying.
Either the military has gone nuts (a distinct possiblity) or they have information that scares them.
Practice on our interstates is not satisfactory preparation for landing on a road in China or wherever..
bring some F18s and compare.
Something tells me a landing strip that is not moving 20 or 30 feet up and down would be pretty plumb for naval aviators.
Yep!
Nothing suspicious here...
Move along...
It all sounds great until somebody lets their milk cows out on the highway.
For many years the Air Force has had a tactical policy to “flush” all flyable aircraft in case of an incoming missile. The order goes out and everybody scrambles like hell, theoretically, to get “their” bird off the ground and safely away before the nuke arrives. (Yeah, it does sound like a “cluster” of epic proportions in the making.)
I don’t know if this disaster policy has ever been practiced in real time with real aircraft landing at real destinations. But there are more “bad guys” than ever with nukes and/or missiles in this world. I’d rather see us prepared than have our planes caught on the ground.
FYI: The UK is also doing the same sort of highway landings.