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Don't the Swedes have the ability to land their planes on any long straight highway and have a refueling crew drive out to the aircraft? I saw that somewhere.
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Not only that but that refueling/rearming crew consists of only an NCO and two or three conscripts! 
Compare that to the dozen or so people need to just check the oil and wash the windshield on a US operated jet.  |
And the number of sorties in a day, per plane, is a massive 3-6. This compensates for the small sizes of the forces. |
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Ofcourse they cant sustain that surge forever, but they do have the pilots to do this at times. Most missions would be short interception missions over Finland. Better would be to have more planes, altough there are some 50 BAE Hawks that ive seen equipped with Sidewinders and rockets.