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F-35 planes: switzerland opposed united:
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Switzerland is opposed to the United States on an additional cost
A dispute opposes Bern to Washington on the price of the 36 planes ordered. Similarly, The Swiss government defends the agreed firm price while the Americans claim additional costs related to inflation.
Posted today at 5:00 p.m.
A US Air Force F-35 hunter at the flight fair at the International Aeronautics. Meanwhile, Espace de Paris 2025 in Paris-Le Bourget.
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Switzerland reported a disagreement on the price of the 36 American combat aircraft F-35 on Wednesday that the Alpine country bought. Furthermore, saying that the United States asked Bern to assume additional costs related to inflation. Moreover, “A f-35 planes: switzerland opposed united settlement of disputes by legal means being formally excluded. the solution must be negotiated,” the Swiss Defense Ministry said in a press release.
According to Bern, Switzerland and the United States have contractually agreed with a firm price. “This was officially confirmed. both by the expert reports of several law studies and by the American Embassy in Bern,” the statement said.
The Swiss government “defends the validity of the agreed firm price. while the DSCA (the American Cooperation Agency for Defense and Security, Editor’s note) is of the opinion that Switzerland must assume these additional costs due to the high inflation that the United States has known in recent years and the sharp increase in prices of raw materials and energy linked to the Pandemic of Covid-19”, explains the Ministry of Defense.
The Swiss government has decided to continue diplomatic discussions. instructed the Ministry of Defense to submit a concrete proposal to it “to resolve this problem”. “A breach of the contract with the US government would have considerable consequences. It would prevent Switzerland from guaranteeing the security of its airspace. its population from 2032, since the current F/A-18 combat aircraft arrive at the end of their duration of use, “warns the Ministry of Defense.
F-35 planes: switzerland opposed united
F-35 for Swiss Air Defense
Switzerland signed on September 19. 2022 the contract on the controversial purchase of these American lockheed-martin combat aircraft for more than 6 billion Swiss francs (6.4 billion euros). Deliveries must start in 2027. Purchase is the final act of a long saga to provide the Swiss Air Force with new devices.
The government f-35 planes: switzerland opposed united had decided at the end of June 2021 to acquire the F-35. considered one of the most modern and sophisticated combat aircraft in the world and which already equips or will equip many European countries. In September 2020. the Swiss narrowly approved an envelope of 6 billion francs to allow the air forces to acquire a new fleet, the devices currently in service -f/A 18 and F5- arriving at the end of life at the end of the decade.
If the Swiss government claims that the plane was by far the best. at the lowest price of all the jets in the running for the contract (Rafale, F/A-18 and Eurofighter), the countless technical difficulties and budgetary overruns of the F-35 program in the United States had prompted two Swiss parliamentary commissions to launch an investigation into the choice of the aircraft.
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