F-35 purchases by European countries are back in the spotlight as Spain scraps procurement plans and Switzerland wrestles with a $1.6 billion cost surge.
Switzerland has begun negotiations with the U.S. over a potential $1.3 billion increase in the price of the country’s new fleet of Lockheed Martin F-35s.
With the opening of a new MRO shop for the Pratt & Whitney engine and upping of on-site testing capacity, SR Technics expects a gradual ramp-up of shop visits.
The SAR emission detector effort began trying to detect C-band and X-band synthetic aperture signals, says Col. Ludovic Monnerat of the Swiss Armed Forces.
Armasuisse says Switzerland is on track to order mid-range air defense equipment from Diehl Defense after MBDA and Kongsberg pulled out of the competition.
Armasuisse has given initial approval for an offset program that would see four of Switzerland's future F-35 JSF combat aircraft partially assembled in-country.
China's National Space Administration has selected six payloads developed by seven international partners to be part of the Chang’e 7 mission to the Moon.
