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Switzerland will pay 3.126 billion Swiss francs - equivalent to Skr21.47 billion - for the Swedish Gripen jet fighters, says Defence Minister Ueli Maurer at a press conference according to reports on the website of the news paper, Basler Zeitung.
A first payment of 300 million Swiss francs is expected to be effected by January 2014, the news item added. Maurer emphasizes that Sweden will guarantee fixed prices and a functioning technology. Swiss engineers will check the jet fighters before delivery.
While citing some benefits of the Gripen jetfighters, Maurer added that the first new planes will be delivered in 2018. In due course he also said that Switzerland will hire eight Gripen C and three Gripen D jet fighter between 2016 and 2020 as a transitional move.
The transitional solution will cost some 44 million Swiss francs (about Skr300 million) per year.
In
a tough negotiation process that in which Gripen was criticized in
Switzerland has finally become a reality and a push forward fro Swedish
technology in that sector.
Switzerland will buy 22 Gripen E jet fighters - a single-seat planes unlike Gripen, F - and the first delivery will take place in the middle of 2018, according to the Swedish Defence Export Authority.
All 22 planes will be delivered by 2021. Until then, from 2016, Switzerland shall hire eight Gripen C and three Gripen D.
The delivery of the planes shall be at a fixed price and the first payment is schedules to be made in 2014.
Ulf Hammarström, director general of the Defence Export Agency (FXM), described in a press conference that the Swiss choice of Gripen in November 30 last year that it was a "historic opportunity" to jointly develop the planes together.
Then began talks began on a joint procurement that has led to a framework agreement which covers three parts: the acquisition of Gripen, the long-term co-operation - maintenance, and further development of the Gripen system throughout its lifetime, and an interim solution where Switzerland would rents the current model.
A definitive agreement will be signed in 2013, according to reports.
By scancomark.se Team
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Tuesday, 28 August 2012Switzerland will pay 3.126 billion Swiss francs - equivalent to Skr21.47 billion - for the Swedish Gripen jet fighters, says Defence Minister Ueli Maurer at a press conference according to reports on the website of the news paper, Basler Zeitung.
A first payment of 300 million Swiss francs is expected to be effected by January 2014, the news item added. Maurer emphasizes that Sweden will guarantee fixed prices and a functioning technology. Swiss engineers will check the jet fighters before delivery.
While citing some benefits of the Gripen jetfighters, Maurer added that the first new planes will be delivered in 2018. In due course he also said that Switzerland will hire eight Gripen C and three Gripen D jet fighter between 2016 and 2020 as a transitional move.
The transitional solution will cost some 44 million Swiss francs (about Skr300 million) per year.
In
a tough negotiation process that in which Gripen was criticized in
Switzerland has finally become a reality and a push forward fro Swedish
technology in that sector. Switzerland will buy 22 Gripen E jet fighters - a single-seat planes unlike Gripen, F - and the first delivery will take place in the middle of 2018, according to the Swedish Defence Export Authority.
All 22 planes will be delivered by 2021. Until then, from 2016, Switzerland shall hire eight Gripen C and three Gripen D.
The delivery of the planes shall be at a fixed price and the first payment is schedules to be made in 2014.
Ulf Hammarström, director general of the Defence Export Agency (FXM), described in a press conference that the Swiss choice of Gripen in November 30 last year that it was a "historic opportunity" to jointly develop the planes together.
Then began talks began on a joint procurement that has led to a framework agreement which covers three parts: the acquisition of Gripen, the long-term co-operation - maintenance, and further development of the Gripen system throughout its lifetime, and an interim solution where Switzerland would rents the current model.
A definitive agreement will be signed in 2013, according to reports.
By scancomark.se Team
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