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Any aircraft can be rough field rated if the pilot is brave enough. (Aka, I'm not entirely sure)
Though they were purpose built to operate from reinforced roads and highways if the situation called for it.
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Well, I know the Viggen was rated to touchdown snuggly-soft for a landing, lest its wheels put craters into the highway.
-That, and remain within a 500 meter rollout.

Late model Drakkens had a takeoff-roll of nearly a kilometer.

But there's one thing the old bird could do that the Russians couldn't... [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqiDEcfSnXs]for awhile...[/url]
-The swedes called it the "erect superstall"
-Personally, I liked the F-4 Phantom tailslide manuver

[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhCSSlfNJk8]Goes to the salles brouchure[/url]