Airborne_Again wrote:
You can change a Gripen engine on a road base. (I don’t know if you consider that “serious maintenance.”)
Changing the engine is line work everywhere AFAIK. It’s done in a couple of hours using hand tools and a trolley, at least on the F-16. Repairing an engine is “serious” maintenance on the other hand. But that wasn’t what I meant. What I meant was that to keep these airplane operational (over some period of time), requires a big huge support infrastructure of maintenance and logistics. This doesn’t change if you spread the aircraft around the countryside, it only makes the logistics more demanding. For short periods of time, no problem.
Thanks Matt.
These kinds of documents are priceless 
It refers to hundreds of trucks being dispatched to preplanned locations that housed 6-8 Harriers each.
Their weaponry was gravity bombs and rockets and their mission quite simple : go to sector XYZ and bomb everything you find with your own eyes.
It is much more sophisticated today.
