An A-10 Thunderbolt II from the 127th Wing, Michigan Air National Guard, lands on a highway near Jägala, Estonia, during Saber Strike on June 20. Amy M. Lovgren/Minnesota National Guard)In another episode ripped from the U.S. military’s Cold War training manual, four Air Force A-10 jets landed on an isolated highway in Estonia on Monday, the first time the aircraft has practiced highway landings since 1984. Though training for highway landings was a staple of the Cold War era, those exercises died out after the Soviet Union collapsed. An A-10 lands on a remote highway strip near Jägala, Estonia, after completing a simulated close air support mission in an exercise during Saber Strike on June 20. [NATO to send ‘combat-ready’ battalions near Russian border]The iconic ground-attack aircraft were from the 127th Wing, Michigan Air National Guard, which was participating in a U.S. Army-led, 14-nation exercise known as Saber Strike.

Source: Washington Post June 21, 2016 13:30 UTC