Switzerland has finalized a 36-aircraft F-35A purchase, concluding a hotly debated procurement process. Though competitors ...

The purchase of 36 next-generation American fighter jets will cost far more than the six billion Swiss francs initially ...

The shift in Switzerland’s attitude towards NATO has been swift. A Swiss security expert said in 2022: “Switzerland is not interested in NATO membership; we simply don’t need it.

Continued support for Ukraine amid Russian aggression as well as higher defence spending by allies are key topics.

Switzerland already has some ties to NATO, while last year it decided to buy Lockheed Martin LMT.N F-35A fighters which are being purchased or already used by some NATO members.

What’s Switzerland’s relationship to NATO? Switzerland is officially neutral and is not a member of NATO. However, since 1996 it has taken part in NATO’s Partnership for Peace programme ...

Switzerland is a historically neutral nation that shares a border with NATO members Italy, France, and Germany, but it has yet to express interest in joining the alliance.

Unlike Switzerland, both countries are members of the European Union and have delivered weapons to Ukraine. They have allowed NATO to conduct operations on their territory since 2014 – and ...

President Biden said he had called the leader of Switzerland to discuss abandoning two centuries of neutrality to join NATO — before quickly correcting himself to say he actually meant Sweden.

Switzerland joined NATO’s Partnership for Peace, a program for nonmembers, in 1996 after the end of the Cold War. The country has provided training and even some helicopters for international ...

Switzerland already has some ties to NATO, while last year it decided to buy Lockheed Martin , opens new tab F-35A fighters which are being purchased or already used by some NATO members . read ...