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[vonFeilitzsch]

WEF 2019 - Swiss MP Unit

 

[uktabber]

Love the Swiss pics, keep'em coming!! You guys have the cleanest motor pools, vehicles, and combat equip anywhere in Europe!

 

[vonFeilitzsch]

 

[Fish&Chips]

Nine new military pilots received pilot certification (Brevet)

The guy in in the blue uniform - is he a French officer on exchange?

 

[Fish&Chips]

On another note: the lighting in this photo makes the grey Swiss uniform look like "pinks and greens".

 

[Gaz]

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New Swiss Air Force Challenger 604. Was bought secondhand from a civilian air ambulance operator.

 

[Gaz]

The Swiss Air Force also recently took delivery of the second military Pilatus PC-24 in the world. The PC-24 is a relatively new type of aircraft, manufactured in Switzerland. Pilatus call it a "super-versatile jet" since it's capable of short, rough field landings but unusually for a business jet, it has a large cargo door (Just in front of the engine on this picture) meaning it can take standard pallets as freight, or can easily fit stretchers onboard instead of the normal eight passengers.

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[BravoZulu]

Swiss caves

 

[Wallensi]

The guy in in the blue uniform - is he a French officer on exchange?

It is a Franco-Swiss exchange (bilateral cooperation), it flies on Pc-7 ,PC- 21 and continues on Mirage -2000-5.

 

[BravoZulu]

Axalp, Switzerland, 2000.

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[Wallensi]

NBC Defense Laboratory (SIBCRA) searches for plutonium samples on a glacier for traces of plutonium 239 from nuclear tests conducted in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Main battle tank 68 and old simulator

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Swiss Patrol

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[ao_sepia]

swiss will sold panzer-68/88(plus give m-113) to thai in 2000's era,but failed.

 

[muck]

Dude… no offence, but you should consider using Google translator.

 

[Wallensi]

P16 (Patrouillenboot) in exercise

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Rehearsal Tank battalion 12 (Panzerbatallion 12)

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[berkut76]

Rehearsal Tank battalion 12 (Panzerbatallion 12)

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Always wanted to ask this question. Do you guys (Swiss, German, etc.) built public roads knowing that heavy armor will roll on them? I shudder to think what would happen to any freeway in California if Abrams tanks will start driving on them.

 

[muck]

I don't know about the Swiss but strongly suspect they do, considering their unbroken commitment to civil defence in infrastructure. They still built nuclear bunkers, after all.

In Germany, Cold War-related regulations still apply, and every major road, bridge and tunnel is constructed with keeping the requirements of armoured columns in mind. Should you ever come to Germany and spot circular orange road signs containing a black number; these indicate the weight limit for armoured vehicles i.e. the maximum MLC tolerated by the surface or the bridge.

 

[Wallensi]

Always wanted to ask this question. Do you guys (Swiss, German, etc.) built public roads knowing that heavy armor will roll on them? I shudder to think what would happen to any freeway in California if Abrams tanks will start driving on them.

We do not build for the army except access to bases and strategic alpine passes. The weight limit on the highway for civil vehicles is 44 tons, but it can resist more.
The road used in town and village is defined in advance in order to avoid low resistance areas. Military roads are even thicker about 1 meter of asphalt for a mountain road. Civil Highway is 65 cm.

 

[muck]

Interesting!

 

[Fish&Chips]

Military roads are even thicker about 1 meter of asphalt for a mountain road.

This Swiss road sign is obviously meant for roads with less than 1 m of tarmac.

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Image by Martin Abegglen, CC by attribution share-alike 2.0​

 

[DENO]

Swiss MP special operations unit Spez Det

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