Manitoba | Port of Churchill

[Highwayman]

Originally Posted by bodaggin

I geeked out and slapped distances on potential Arctic airbase locations. These locations fit perfectly into all fighter jet ranges for routine base-to-base patrol hopping.

Only Resolute Bay and Alert runways require paving. Resolute Bay is an incredible geographic hub on the air and water front. It has no entrenched supply lines though. But Churchill does by rail, and Yellowknife/Inuvik do by year-round road. Making them strategic hubs for fuel etc. The locations with existing paved runways are also very easy upstart bases, even if just used for patrol hops (I'm sure FactaNV can correct the military jargon).

So Churchill becomes a very important puzzle piece to this mesh of bases. On a variety of fronts. It also checks all 3 boxes: Air, Sea, and Existing Resupply Access (rail). No other location in this mesh has all 3.

They should never have closed the Base in churchill to begin with.