{"id":188525,"date":"2010-09-11T05:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-11T10:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/11\/swiss-freeze-fighter-purchase\/"},"modified":"2010-09-11T05:14:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-11T10:14:00","slug":"swiss-freeze-fighter-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/11\/swiss-freeze-fighter-purchase\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Freeze Fighter Purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think that the Swiss decision to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/story.php?i=4756793&amp;c=air;%20budget;%20policy&amp;s=TOP\">delay any decision on fighter purchases<\/a> has a number of causes.<\/p>\n<p>First, they realize that changes in banking regulation may cut seriously into their revenues, and second, I think that they may be able to get some lightly used fighters cheaply from bankrupt nations like Spain, who is on the hook for a significant numbers of Eurofighter Typhoon:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Switzerland on Wednesday postponed its search for new air force fighter jets for several years, just weeks before it was expected to announce a decision on the multibillion dollar tender.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Swiss Defence Minister Ueli Maurer said at a news conference that the postponement of the replacement of about half of the Swiss army&#8217;s ageing fleet of F-5 Tiger aircraft &#8220;will last at most until 2015&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">The tender launched in January 2008 led to a fierce battle between European aerospace group EADS&#8217;s Eurofighter, French firm Dassault&#8217;s Rafale and the Gripen built by Sweden&#8217;s Saab.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think that this impacts Saab more than Dassault or Eurofighter, as they really need a foreign client for their Gripen NG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think that the Swiss decision to delay any decision on fighter purchases has a number of causes. First, they realize that changes in banking regulation may cut seriously into their revenues, and second, I think that they may be able to get some lightly used fighters cheaply from bankrupt nations like Spain, who is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,984],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}