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Re:Camouflaged Military Bunkers of Switzerland (2015) by rscho on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @09:43AM (#25345755)
The recent vote to buy expensive planes confirms many swiss and myself included in the opinion that efficient defense capabilities clearly is not the national focus. There were two main points in support of planes:

- policing the skies

- radar tech

As for policing, I'm quite sure many swiss would prefer to have 2-3 high-speed unarmed exploratory planes instead. Wanna shoot down the offender? Just a single missile base in the center of the country would do the trick more efficienty and for cheap. As for radar tech, we could most certainly have a better and cheaper solution adapted to our country by just asking for it at ETHZ or EPFL. We are not Russia or the USA. Our country is minuscule.

Just remembering the recent scandals with the israeli drones and the useless command software that cost tens of millions while we have degrading education, postal and healthcare systems makes me furious. And I'm far from the only one.

Fuck the army.

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Re:Camouflaged Military Bunkers of Switzerland (2015) by ARandomerDude on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @10:55AM (#25346900)
> Just a single missile base

What could go wrong?

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Re:Camouflaged Military Bunkers of Switzerland (2015) by rscho on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @11:10AM (#25347120)
Even 10 missile bases would still be cheaper than the planes we bought.

Now what could go wrong with limitless military spending, you might ask? Easy: it's called "the USA". I've been there, and I don't want to go back.

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Re:Camouflaged Military Bunkers of Switzerland (2015) by greatpatton on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @11:50AM (#25347781)
Missile bases are just sitting ducks that are waiting to be destroyed before the real attack... Look at the Karabach, The nice S300 anti-airplane system was obliterated at the start of the war with cheap drones. (even the anti-drones systems were destroyed by drones)
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Re:Camouflaged Military Bunkers of Switzerland (2015) by rscho on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @12:07PM (#25348071)
In opposition to our 25 fighter planes piloted and commanded by greenhorns who have never seen a real conflict. Those will make quick work of the invader.

This is laughable. Swiss armed forces have their justification in policing or counterterrorism. Not defense against actual whole armies.

I'd rather have good hospitals and schools, thank you very much.

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Re:Camouflaged Military Bunkers of Switzerland (2015) by baybal2 on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @03:24PM (#25350845)
> Missile bases are just sitting ducks that are waiting to be destroyed before the real attack...

And so are your airbases, and aircrafts on "blind" patrol to low observable, ground hugging targets.

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Re:Camouflaged Military Bunkers of Switzerland (2015) by YeGoblynQueenne on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @03:05PM (#25350633)
Can I ask, what country is expected to invade Switzerland?
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