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Bas 60 (Flygbassystem 60, Air Base System 60) was an air base system developed and used by the Swedish Air Force during the Cold War. The system was based around defensive force dispersal of aircraft and its supporting ground operations across many krigsflygbaser (wartime air bases) in case of war, primarily as a protective measure against ...
Bas 60 was primarily a response to the nuclear threat, so in the aftermath of the Six-Day War in 1967, and the introduction of long range attack aircraft, such as the Sukhoi Su-24, the system was further developed into Bas 90. Improvements in the Bas 90 system included construction of short backup runways in the direct vicinity of the airbases ...
M885 – M880 fitted with slide-in shelter kit with tie-downs; M886 – M880 ambulance model; M887 – M880 maintenance model; M888 – M880 telephone maintenance model; M890 – 4 × 2 pickup; M891 – M890 fitted with additional 60-amp 24-volt generator; M892 – M890 fitted with additional 60-amp 24-volt generator and communications kit
A Hawker Hurricane Mk.I of No. 601 Squadron RAF being serviced by Royal Air Force ground crew at an exposed dispersal at RAF Exeter, November 1940.. Dispersal is a military practice of dispersing or spreading out potentially vulnerable military assets, such as soldiers, aircraft, ships, tanks, weapons, vehicles, and similar equipment of an army, navy, or air force.
TM 11-487 Electrical Communication systems Equipment. dated 2 October 1944 TM 11-487-C1 military standardization handbook dated 1965 T/O&E 44-16 , Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion, Mobile, dated 17 November 1944
Also, pictures and replicas of Su 35 were seen in that base. This base, where Iranian drones are also present, is probably somewhere in the south of Iran. While broadcasting a video of another base, on the other side of which Su-24 Fencer aircraft equipped with +2000 km cruises, Iran announced that it has more underground bases that will be ...
Type 60 81 mm self-propelled mortar; Type 60 107 mm self-propelled mortar; Type 60 armoured personnel carrier; Type 61 (tank) Type 62 light tank; Type 63 (armoured personnel carrier) Type 63 (tank) Type 63 anti-aircraft gun; Type-60 self-propelled 106 mm recoilless rifle
From the late 1950s it was used as a base for Bristol Bloodhound Missiles until 1964 when most of the site was sold off for agriculture or mineral extraction. The former missile site used to be under the control of RAF Coningsby having been used for the servicing of McDonnell Douglas Phantom and Panavia Tornado aircraft engines until finally ...