"Alan Erskine" wrote in message
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"Andrew Chaplin" wrote in message
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Many airfields in West Germany were designed with the passive airfield
defence concept of runway redundancy in mind. If runways were holed,
taxiways would do; if taxiways were f***ed, then there was often a stretch
of Autobahn running parallel-ish that would do in a severe pinch. Flugplatz
Lahr is an example of where there were such plans:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/5es8yp.

I wonder if the Russians.... I mean SOVIETS ;-) did the same thing. And
what about the Chinese?

Likely. It's not that sophisticated a concept. It's just that the Deutschers
had more airfields and more major highways with which to do it.
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Andrew Chaplin
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