Odisha has a total of two operational airports, 17 airstrips and 16 helipads. None of the airstrips has paved runways. Its operations focus on serving remote and mountainous airports and airstrips. Targets included radio stations, a seaplane base, airstrips, and ships. Destroying bridges, blocking roads, creating airstrips, digging trenches, etc. Small detachments were later sent in defence of the airstrips including Kainantu. They shelled the beachhead, targeting the airstrips and the supply dumps. Other airstrips were arranged at other villages. A "gravel kit" can be fitted to aircraft to enable operations from rough, unprepared airstrips. A lack of airstrips and deepwater ports hampered the speed of relief operations. Many of the islands also contain small airstrips enabling travel by air. Russian bombers impaired the airstrips in Georgia. Some tribal communities were resettled to make room for the airstrips. Two were sent to bomb two rebel airstrips at Mullaitivu and Kilinochchi areas. Other base facilities were erected concurrently with the construction of the airstrips.