“Lesson from the Ukraine War’: Sweden wants to protect its fighter jets like in the Cold War. Finland is already taking a similar approach, and the plans are generating great interest from long-standing NATO member Norway – and apparently also from NATO in general.

“We can learn a lot about distribution concepts from Sweden, Norway and Finland,” said a spokesman for the Norwegian air defense force, Eivind By. The Swedish military writes on its homepage of “around 50” military air bases, many of which are out of operation.