Nations known to utilize the strategy of highways constructed to double as auxiliary airbases in the event of war are Singapore, Sweden (vägbas, literally meaning "road base"), Finland (maantietukikohta), Germany (NLP-Str - Notlandeplätze auf Straßen, emergency airfields on roads), Poland (DOL - Drogowy Odcinek Lotniskowy, lit. "road airfield section"), Republic of China (Taiwan) (戰備跑道 , lit. "war spare runway"), South African Air Force (Tactical Air Bases), former USSR (Аэродромный Участок Дороги, "airfield part of road"). After the Turkish invasion of Cyprus at least two highway strips were built in the Greek part of Cyprus, easily recognisable by a runway center line and markings for the touch down zone. One is located on the Limassol–Nicosia Highway (5,200 m or 17,100 ft) and one of the Limassol–Larnaca highway (5,000 m or 16,000 ft).[citation needed] In Poland, as of 2003, only one highway strip is used annually for an exercise. In Pakistan, The M-1 Motorway (Peshawar-Islamabad) and the M-2 Motorway (Islamabad-Lahore) each include two emergency runway sections of 2,700 m (9,000 ft) length each. The four emergency runway sections become operational by removing removable concrete medians using forklifts. The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) has used the M2 motorway as a runway on two occasions: for the first time in 2000 when it landed an F-7P fighter, a Super Mushak trainer and a C-130 and, again, in 2010. On the last occasion, the PAF used a runway section on the M2 motorway on 2 April 2010 to land, refuel and take-off two jet fighters, a Mirage III and an F-7P, during its Highmark 2010 exercise
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