[orionrising]

yep aircraft cost millions concrete runways are repaired in a couple days with concrete and gravel, you only hit them to control launches for a short period of time. while you want to have air superiority.

[Grampa Dave]

Aircraft cost millions concrete runways are repaired in a couple days with concrete and gravel unless Moonbeam’s CalTran bozos are doing the repair.

Then, it would take millions of $’s and years for the repair.

[Dutch Boy]

Runways can be repaired much faster than that. It was one of the tasks my army unit did. Depending on the damage it might take hours. I’m sure things have gotten quicker over the last 35 years.

[Vigilanteman]

Back during World War II, the Japanese could crater a runway one day and the Seabees would have it operating the next. I forget what they called those preformed runway slabs but sometimes there was a stack of those around which could be dragged into place mere hours later.

[Grognard49]

You’re right about runway repairs, especially at Russian built airfields. I worked at K2 airfield in Uzbekistan before the US was kicked out by the Uzbeks. The old Russian runway was built of identical concrete slabs about 10” thick. This made for a really rough runway, but a damaged slab could be lifted out, the ground underneath leveled, and replaced by another in a matter of hours. Any decent construction crew with a dozer, backhoe, and a crane could do this. Extra slabs were stockpiled at locations around the airfield.

No use wasting a perfectly good Tomahawk on concrete.

First FR post :-)