NATO wants to pay you €250k for the best way to brick enemy airfields
NATO’s transformation command and a joint Ukraine-NATO center just launched a hackathon called "Persistent Airfield Denial." Yes, they are crowdsourcing ideas on how to keep military runways completely unusable.
Normally, military planning involves stuffy generals in windowless rooms debating budgets. But this time, NATO and a joint Ukraine-NATO center called JATEC decided to run a startup-style innovation contest.
The goal is beautifully simple: find smart, cheap, and highly annoying ways to make sure an enemy airfield stays broken after it gets hit. Because currently, whenever a runway gets cratered, the enemy just pours some quick-drying concrete over it and starts launching jets again within twelve hours. No one wants to waste million-dollar missiles on a temporary pothole.
So, they have put up a prize pool of €250,000. It is basically a global call to engineers, geeks, and garage inventors to come up with the ultimate runway-ruining hack.
One hopes the winning submission involves something incredibly petty, like filling the blast craters with industrial superglue and thousands of tiny, indestructible Lego bricks.
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