Fighter test schedule published

BERN — The flight and ground trials with the five fighter aircraft candidates will take place in Payerne from April to June. The aircraft capabilities will be checked at the military airfield there in alphabetical order. The dates for media creators and spotters are also already fixed.

For each candidate, a total of eight missions with one or two combat aircraft will be conducted during four days of flight. The capabilities of the aircraft and the information from the submitted offers are checked. Beforehand, the providers have the opportunity to familiarize themselves with another flight with the specific procedures in the Swiss airspace. One flight will take place at night. For this, the starting times of the season must be adjusted accordingly, with the flights always ending before midnight. During bank holidays, no trial flights will be made.

The candidates are tested in alphabetical order according to the name of the manufacturer:
— Airbus, GER, Eurofighter: in calendar weeks 15 and 16
— Boeing, USA, F / A-18 Super Hornet: in calendar weeks 17 and 18
— Dassault, FRA, Rafale: in calendar weeks 20 and 21
— Lockheed Martin, USA, F-35A: in calendar weeks 23 and 24
— Saab, SWE, Gripen E: in calendar weeks 25 and 26

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