F-35 Lot 18 ‘price increase’ due to inflation, rising raw material cost: Pentagon – The rising costs have led to a row between Switzerland and the US, as Bern faces a $610 million increase for its order of 36 F-35As, a defense official told Breaking Defense

by BkkGrl

8 comments

  1. Let‘s hope this turns out to be true. Would be economically feasible as it‘s less than the lowest possible estimate by armasuisse which was 650 mln $

  2. Dear Bern, are you aware of the sunk cost fallacy? I know you have endless pockets as you don’t have to pay yourself as we do that with our taxes so it doesn’t hurt you directly. But we can use our tax better.

    Therefore, stop.

  3. the louder domestic swiss popular opposition becomes, the more pressure on the Swiss government to play hardball, while also bolstering their negotiating position — hopefully a strategy that has occurred to the empty suits in the berner beizen

    even for those of you who still support this absurd contract, I would argue that an uproar in the population is the best chance to keep the contract “reasonable”, as the Americans have already shown that they will not hesitate to repeatedly embarrass an increasingly helpless-seeming bundesrat

    and for anyone who thinks this is just trump and the gang, hold that thought and let’s see whether anything changes when the next democrat gets in

  4. I think usa is just extorting us. “Due to inflation “ inflation and tarrifs caused by dear leader. This is a bad mouth joke.

  5. I’m curious. In 2020 we voted on max 6bn CHF for the jets. Now, as far as I know we hedged that amount, so we cannot profit from USD depreciation. So assuming a 1bn CHF price increase, thats about 16% higher costs. Isn’t this more or less cumulative US inflation since 2020? Judging from inflation rates in the EU, we would probably get an equal increase in price if we would have bought from the EU.

  6. The USD has sunk so much vs CHF over the past years, that it’s probably the same amount of CHF as before. 

  7. Yeah, let’s keep on licking Trumpenstein’s ass… That’s just horseshit from their mouths.

  8. america isn’t a reliable ally on for this, simple as that

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