Indonesia is embarking on a plan to make toll roads across the country into emergency runways for its fighter jets, giving it the equivalent of multiple aircraft carriers across the vast archipelago.
The chief of staff of the Indonesian air forces, Marshal Tonny Harjono, said Wednesday that he hopes that eventually each of the country’s 39 provinces will have at least one toll road section usable as an emergency runway, though no timeline was given.
In a demonstration Wednesday, an Indonesian Air Force F-16 fighter and a Super Tucano attack plane performed successful landings and takeoffs from a toll road in Lampung province on the southern tip of the island of Sumatra.
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