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Description: The Swiss Air Force (Schweizer Luftwaffe, Forces aériennes suisses, Forze Aeree Svizzere) is the air component of the Swiss Armed Forces. It was established on July 31, 1914 but did not become a separate service until 1936. During World War II, it defended Swiss airspace against incursions by both Allied and Axis aircraft, shooting down aircraft from both sides of the conflict.[citation needed] A report in the Swiss news magazine FACTS reveals that the Swiss Air Force only provides ready-to-take-off aircraft during office hours -- on working days. The air force staff declared that, due to financial limits, they are not operational all the time.The difficulty of defending Swiss airspace is illustrated by the small size of the country; the maximum extension of Switzerland is 348 km, a distance that can be flown in little over 20 minutes by commercial aircraft. Further, Switzerland's policy of neutrality means that they are unlikely to be deployed elsewhere. Its primary front-line air-defence fleet consists of 33 F-18 Hornets (Squadrons: 11, 17, 18. 34 were originally bought, but one crashed) and 54 remaining F-5 Tiger IIs (110 were originally purchased). In 2010 the Swiss Air Force intends to begin the retirement of the F-5 in the three squadrons (Patrouille Suisse, 8th, 19th) that use it and hopes to acquire a New Warplane/Neues Kampfflugzeug (NFK) as replacement. As with the earlier F/A-18 procurement conducted in the late 1990s, this is expected to prove a politically fraught procurement due to Switzerland`s socialist, anti-army and green groups, which are all opposed to such purchases. The Patrouille Suisse will need to change to a new aircraft, either the F/A-18 Hornet or the new fighter. Although they are likely to acquire the new F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, other 4.5 generation fighter planes such as the Eurofighter Typhoon, Dassault Rafale and the Saab Gripen are being considered. In 2011 the Swiss Air Force will also be retiring its venerable fleet of 60 Aérospatiale Alouette III, which will be replaced by Eurocopter EC-635s. The national aerobatic demonstration team of Swiss Air Force is the Patrouille Suisse, which flies the F-5 Tiger II aircraft.The Swiss Air Force has nine air bases, the most important of these being Payerne, in western Switzerland. The others are the helicopter base at Alpnach, a dormant base at Buochs and several other bases at Bern, Dübendorf, Emmen, Meiringen, Sion and Locarno. However, the air force closed Mollis by January 2007, and Alpnach will be reduced in size. Aircraft/Historical * Blériot XI * EKW Häfeli DH5 * EKW C35 * EKW C36 * Morane-Saulnier M.S.405 * Messerschmitt Bf 108 * Messerschmitt Bf 109 * Fieseler Storch * P-51 Mustang * T-6 Texan * De Havilland Vampire * De Havilland Venom * Hawker Hunter * Dassault Mirage III * Northrop F-5E Tiger II * Aérospatiale Alouette III * Super Puma / Cougar * BAe Hawk - Jet trainer * Pilatus PC-6 * Pilatus PC-7 * Pilatus PC-9 * Boeing F/A-18C Hornet
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blademanx ::: Favorites Swiss air force should get hold of Eurofighter. The most advanced jet in europe making us way behind F22 apaprently..but its good that swiss dont feel pressure to have a new plane. 07-09-11 09:18:22 __________________________________________________
osiris5432 ::: Favorites No but the pilots were sure as hell trained by russian pilots. And even when Russian Pilots have fought with American they still lost. Granted that was in the 1950s during the Korean conflict, the Mig-15 had better armerment and out munbered the American F-86 Sabers and Still Americans had more victories. 07-09-09 08:01:00 __________________________________________________
samuraikensai ::: Favorites Except that the Russian planes you speak of osiris5432 weren't flown by Russian pilots.... 07-09-09 05:13:08 __________________________________________________
GavardO88 ::: Favorites fucking krazy 07-09-08 10:37:18 __________________________________________________
lotus3232 ::: Favorites ABSOLUMENT MAGNIFIQUE !!!!!!!!!! 07-09-06 19:59:50 __________________________________________________
quick1088 ::: Favorites and different units of measure 07-09-06 19:33:23 __________________________________________________
quick1088 ::: Favorites no its not that easy...... see like a Mustang pilto couldnt jump into a P-47 and know how to fly it... its a different aircraft all together.... an F-15 pilot would be unfamiliar whi a MiG-29 or SU-27 because its foreign and because they are used to one jet... different gauges and everything.....or in different languages rather. 07-09-05 01:17:41 __________________________________________________
Jwmbike14 ::: Favorites although it isnt the greatest fighter, the F5 is a beautiful aircraft... it is small and looks so awesome... to me it looks like a sports car... but it is better as a trainer than fighter... doesnt handle anywhere near that of most of todays fighters...as far as speed and power and so on... but being a smaller aircraft sometimes it can out maneuver depending on combat speeds, then again there is no such thing as close combat anymore. now its all radar guided 07-09-04 02:25:00 __________________________________________________
RobTzu ::: Favorites "Swiss Air Force only provides ready-to-take-off aircraft during office hours -- on working days. The air force staff declared that, due to financial limits, they are not operational all the time." Yikes, That would worry me. 07-09-03 22:56:50 __________________________________________________