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This website shows the airstrips and has links to overhead pictures of them, from there you can figure out which are sealed and which are not and how long they are. I suppose from there an adversary could rank these strips into usefulness and therefore their priority for surveillance and attack.Leaving aside the open question of whether these airstrips have pavement strong enough to hold fighters the usefulness in my mind is the big question. For example fighters usually operate in pairs or flights, often larger military aircraft operate in multiples as well. This requires the ability to gather a number of aircraft at the end of the runway for almost simulataneous takeoff and clearing the runway upon landing. When returning from Black Buck 1 a number of Victor tankers landing at the same time parked at the end of the runway, so the last tanker pilot hoped his brakes were working so he didn't crash into a bunch of other tankers bunched up at the end of the runway.Many of the airfields in the north are totally inadequate for this, they have no taxiways or anything at the end of the runway to allow planes to take off closely together and clear the runway upon landing. Even the hand-built Sid's Strip in the Falklands had a loop at the end of the runway so Harriers could taxi and take off together.
This website shows the airstrips and has links to overhead pictures of them, from there you can figure out which are sealed and which are not and how long they are. I suppose from there an adversary could rank these strips into usefulness and therefore their priority for surveillance and attack.
Leaving aside the open question of whether these airstrips have pavement strong enough to hold fighters the usefulness in my mind is the big question. For example fighters usually operate in pairs or flights, often larger military aircraft operate in multiples as well. This requires the ability to gather a number of aircraft at the end of the runway for almost simulataneous takeoff and clearing the runway upon landing. When returning from Black Buck 1 a number of Victor tankers landing at the same time parked at the end of the runway, so the last tanker pilot hoped his brakes were working so he didn't crash into a bunch of other tankers bunched up at the end of the runway.
Many of the airfields in the north are totally inadequate for this, they have no taxiways or anything at the end of the runway to allow planes to take off closely together and clear the runway upon landing. Even the hand-built Sid's Strip in the Falklands had a loop at the end of the runway so Harriers could taxi and take off together.
