Month after month the Swiss fighter jet and air defence procurement gets a level more desastrous. Today Tamedia newspapers report based on governement insiders that the Defense Department is now expecting the Patriot missiles to cost twice as much as agreed. That’s 4,6 instead of 2,3 billions. So not only does the US governement delay the delivery for an indefinite period of time (last assumption was min. 5 years delay), and not only do they misapropriate payments that were made for the F-35 for the patriot deal (why the hell do they even need the money today, if they won’t produce our order in the next few years anyway?), no, they also raise the price tag by a whopping 100%. And that’s today’s assumption. Usually those things get worse over time. In other words: Our governement is bing screwed by the U.S. over and over and we’re continuing to send millions and billions to this “partner” without knowing if, when and for what final price anything is delivered. One starts to wonder when it’s time to cut losses. Their only comment: “We’re in intense communication with the U.S.” Source: https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/patriot-raketen-usa-wollen-von-schweiz-ueber-4-milliarden-834529694245 (German, possibly paywalled) submitted by /u/b00nish
Originally posted by u/b00nish on r/Switzerland