Airbus has offered to assemble Eurofighter airplane in Switzerland if Bern picks it for a 6 billion Swiss franc ($6.5 billion) security contract, a top sales rep at the consortium told a Swiss Sunday paper.
Germany, Italy, Spain and Britain, who make the Eurofighter, have additionally offered Bern political participation should it win the Swiss challenge between two U.S. and two European warrior jets, which are to be delivered by 2025.
The Swiss cabinet is set to finalize on Wednesday among the Eurofighter, the Rafale from France’s Dassault, Boeing’s F/A-18 Super Hornet and Lockheed Martin’s F35-A Lightning II to supplant maturing F/A-18 Hornets.
Swiss TV announced last week that the F-35 gave the best specialized and financial highlights in a Swiss assessment, yet the ultimate choice was open.
The SonntagsZeitung paper cited Bernhard Brenner, head of deals at Airbus Defense and Space, as saying impartial Switzerland ought not to go by that assessment alone.
“The financial and political components are similarly as significant,” he said. The paper said Airbus has presented a 700-page dossier on financial “counterbalances” alone, alluding to side deals that pipe contract costs back to neighborhood providers.
The government is divided among the individuals who favor the F-35 and the individuals who might incline toward a European deal to help smooth relations with the European Union after Switzerland dumped a draft two-sided settlement following years of talks.
The defense ministers of Germany, Italy, Spain and Britain kept in touch with Bern last year offering military collaboration like training, in addition to partnership in economics, energy, science, the climate, transport, online cybersecurity and infrastructure, Brenner told the paper.
France has been pushing Bern to pick the Rafale, while U.S. President Joe Biden talked about the deal with Swiss leaders while in Geneva this month to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The defense ministry has declined to remark on the deal.
