page_title: Highway strip
hierarchical_section_title: Highway strip
caption_attribution_description: English: A rear view of a C-130 Hercules aircraft landing on the autobahn A29 near city of Ahlhorn during NATO-exercise "highway 84"Deutsch: Hercules C-130 landet im Rahmen der Nato-Übung "Highway 84" auf dem in der Nähe der Ortschaft Ahlhorn auf der Bundesautobahn A29 eingerichteten Notlandepatz.
context_page_description: A highway strip, road runway or road base is a section of a highway, motorway or other form of public road that is specially built to act as a runway for military aircraft and to serve as an auxiliary military air base. These runways allow military aircraft to continue operating even if their regular air bases, some of the most vulnerable targets in any war, are degraded or destroyed.
  The first highway strips were constructed near the end of World War II in Nazi Germany, where the well developed Reichsautobahn system allowed aircraft to use the motorways. During the Cold War highway strips were systematically built on both sides of the Iron Curtain, in many cases in response to The Six Day War and Operation Focus in 1967, where the Israeli Air Force in a surprise air strike disabled many of their opponents' air bases in just a few hours. Countries that have built highway strips include both West and East Germany, Singapore, North Korea, Taiwan, Sweden, Finland, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Poland, India, Pakistan and Czechoslovakia.
context_section_description: A highway strip, road runway or road base is a section of a highway, motorway or other form of public road that is specially built to act as a runway for (mostly) military aircraft and to serve as an auxiliary military air base. These runways allow military aircraft to continue operating even if their regular air bases, some of the most vulnerable targets in any war, are degraded or destroyed.
  The first highway strips were constructed near the end of World War II in Nazi Germany, where the well developed Reichsautobahn system allowed aircraft to use the motorways. During the Cold War highway strips were systematically built on both sides of the Iron Curtain, in many cases in response to The Six Day War and Operation Focus in 1967, where the Israeli Air Force in a surprise air strike disabled many of their opponents' air bases in just a few hours. Countries that have built highway strips include both West and East Germany, Singapore, North Korea, Taiwan, Sweden, Finland, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Poland, India, Pakistan and Czechoslovakia.
caption: A C-130 Hercules lands on the A29 Autobahn near Ahlhorn during military exercise 'Highway 84'
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