The Swiss air force is down to just 10 ready fighters with full-time pilots. The crisis is the result of the Swiss public’s decision in a 2014 referendum to reject the air force’s proposal to buy 22 ...

The Swiss Air Force (SAF) will test the air defense system with landings and take-offs on a motorway as part of exercise “Alpha One”. In June 2024 the Swiss Air Force will practice landing and ...

A Swiss Air Force F/A-18 fighter jet lands on the motorway during the Alpha Uno drill in Payerne A Swiss Air Force F/A-18 fighter jet lands on the motorway during the Alpha Uno drill in Payerne ...

U.S. lawmakers are close to finalizing the Pentagon’s budget for 2020. The $738-billion National Defense Authorization Act should allow the U.S. Navy to acquire 22 used F-5E/F Tiger fighters from ...

An F-35A from the 34th Fighter Squadron “Rude Rams,” based at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, flies over the Swiss Alps during an evaluation by the Swiss Air Force in 2019. Next summer, the Swiss ...

The Swiss air force resumed operations with its Pilatus PC-21 trainers on 30 November, following a brief suspension of activities imposed after a non-fatal accident involving the advanced turboprop.

According to a Swiss public television report the Lockheed Martin F-35 is well ahead of its competitors in the race for the next Swiss Air Force fighter. On Monday Jun. 21, 2021, the Swiss public ...

The Swiss Air Force is flying operational testing sorties on two of its planned six Elbit Hermes 900 unmanned aircraft. (Armasuisse) The Swiss Air Force has received the first two of six Elbit Systems ...

Pilatus will deliver two more PC-21 turboprop trainers to the Swiss air force under a deal signed on 17 December worth SFr30 million ($31.2 million). The follow-on order will increase the Swiss air ...

An independent study by the Swiss Federal Council determined that the F-35A stealth fighter was significantly more effective and less costly to acquire, operate, and sustain than the F/A-18E/F—which ...

A squadron of Swiss fighter pilots caused a stir on Saturday when they performed a fly-by over a local yodeling festival instead of the event they were scheduled to appear at. A spokesman for the ...

June 30 (UPI) --Switzerland will purchase 36 F-35A Lightning II fighter planes in a potential $6.5 billion deal, the Swiss government and builder Lockheed Martin announced on Wednesday. The decision ...