{"id":28888,"date":"2026-03-10T10:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T10:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/28888\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T10:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T10:20:09","slug":"swiss-arms-exports-jump-43-to-chf948-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/28888\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss arms exports jump 43% to CHF948 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/83774107cb7f9b8ca62ffd2f4b4e9c212f3770ca-91070120.jpg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" alt=\"Switzerland exported more war material in 2025\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Switzerland exported 43% more war materiel in 2025.            <\/p>\n<p>            Keystone-SDA        <\/p>\n<p>        Swiss firms exported war materiel worth CHF948.2 million ($1.2 billion) in 2025 &#8211; 43% more than the previous year. Sixty-four countries bought ammunition, armoured vehicles and weapons produced by Swiss companies.\n<\/p>\n<p>            Listen to the article        <\/p>\n<p>            Listening the article        <\/p>\n<p>                Toggle language selector            <\/p>\n<p>                            English (US)                        <\/p>\n<p>                            English (British)                        <\/p>\n<p>            Generated with artificial intelligence.        <\/p>\n<p>        This content was published on    <\/p>\n<p>        March 10, 2026 &#8211; 10:27\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/latest-news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">+Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The top five nations importing war materiel were Germany (CHF386.4 million), the United States (CHF94.2 million), Hungary (CHF63.4 million), Italy (CHF62.2 million) and Luxembourg (CHF47.4 million), the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\n    More<\/p>\n<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/174606816_highres.jpg\" width=\"1300\" height=\"867\" alt=\"Munitions handled by Swiss army recruits.\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        More    <\/p>\n<p>        Neutrality\n        <\/p>\n<p>        Switzerland eases arms export rules as its industry is shunned by Europe    <\/p>\n<p class=\"teaser-wide-card__excerpt\">\n<p>                        This content was published on                    <\/p>\n<p>                        Jan 29, 2026                    <\/p>\n<p>                Switzerland will allow the sale of weapons to countries embroiled in conflict, in a move favourable to its defence industry. The country insists such exports are compatible with neutrality.            <\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"teaser-wide-card__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/neutrality\/switzerland-eases-arms-export-rules-as-its-industry-shunned-by-europe\/90836288\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>            Read more: Switzerland eases arms export rules as its industry is shunned by Europe<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just under half (43.2%) of the deliveries were ammunition and almost a quarter (23.6%) were armoured vehicles. Weapons of all calibres accounted for 10.3% of exports.<\/p>\n<p>Components for combat aircraft, fire control equipment, explosives and military fuels, and light weapons accounted for 6.3%, 5.8%, 4.5% and 3.9% of all exports, respectively. <\/p>\n<p>Adapted from French by AI\/sb<\/p>\n<p>                How we work            <\/p>\n<p>We select the most relevant news for an international audience and use automatic translation tools to translate them into English. A journalist then reviews the translation for clarity and accuracy before publication.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Providing you with automatically translated news gives us the time to write more in-depth articles. 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