parliamentarians from various political parties are in agreement for once – you want to know from the Ministry of defence, VBS first-Hand how serious the problems around the new army mine thrower mortar 16. “We want to know what the deal is,” says SVP-national Council of Werner Salzmann. “The Parliament approved an armor shop, and then you go for years not forward? So I have trouble,” says CVP national councillor Ida Glanzmann.
A Search of this newspaper shows that a manufacturer Ruag fighting for the development of the Mor-sers 16 with serious problems. The delivery of the prototype is delayed by 34 months, a series contract for the 32 approved weapons is not signed today, the development cost on the part of Ruag are high-rocketed, the state-owned company had to pay a penalty, and recent Tests have supported new defects and problems for the Ruag engineers is evident.
The safety, politicians have seen an early model of the mortar 16 with my own eyes, exactly three years ago, on Monday, 18. April 2016. At that time, the members of the security policy commissions took a trip in the Canton of Thurgau. At the edge of the city of Frauenfeld, in the barracks now, had organized the VBS for our show. Under the title “Materials for the arms Embassy 16” presented the military of the National and state councillors armaments, to decide on the purchase of the Parliament in that year.
“trouble not known”
The mortar 16 is a self-developed mine launcher, Ruag, installed in a Piranha wheeled APC from the manufacturer General dynamics European land systems/Mowag – was part of the exhibition. He embodied the largest portion of the armament programme. The price for 32 copies: 404 million Swiss francs. “For me, it is clear that we need this mortar,” says Werner Salzmann, who serves today as President of the Security Commission of the national Council. The Bernese SVP-man understood that the procurement everything was in order – “the problems were not known to me”.
Salzmann has proposed the mine thrower now at the next Commission meeting, VBS Director Viola Amherd (CVP) must deliver next Monday reply. The Federal councillor, who has inherited the arms business of your predecessor, Guy Parmelin (SVP), in turn, through a speaker that Armasuisse have them informed about the delays. She wanted to wait for first of all, what is the solution of Armasuisse think before you decide on any further steps on the political stage.
the President of the stator ätlichen safety Commission, the URI, Josef Dittli, was traveled in April 2016 after a woman’s field: “I assumed that the mortar is properly developed. It is not, of course, well, the Ruag makes for negative headlines.” If the prototype is made in such a too late, delaying the whole purchasing. Dittli, “we would have had to be informed.”
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 24.04.2019, 23:04 PM
