{"id":26651,"date":"2026-03-06T14:25:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T14:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/26651\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T14:25:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T14:25:40","slug":"swiss-government-seeks-additional-funds-for-fighter-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/26651\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Government Seeks Additional Funds for Fighter Jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The Swiss government declared on Friday its plan to request parliament&#8217;s endorsement for an extra 394 million Swiss Francs ($504 million) to finance the acquisition of F-35A fighter jets.<\/p>\n<p>This confirmation follows a prior decision to curtail the purchase plans from the full complement of 36 Lockheed Martin F-35A aircraft due to budgetary limits.<\/p>\n<p>The previous exchange rate noted was $1 equal to 0.7821 Swiss francs.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>(With inputs from agencies.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The Swiss government declared on Friday its plan to request parliament&#8217;s endorsement for an extra 394 million&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[16153,16155,16156,16157,16150,16151,16154,16152,2177,41,906,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-26651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-switzerland","8":"tag-additional-funds","9":"tag-aircraft-acquisition","10":"tag-budget-constraints","11":"tag-defense-spending","12":"tag-f-35a","13":"tag-fighter-jets","14":"tag-financial-reasons","15":"tag-lockheed-martin","16":"tag-parliament","17":"tag-swiss","18":"tag-swiss-government","19":"tag-switzerland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116182694199447552","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}