{"id":21146701,"date":"2026-09-08T17:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T15:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/swiss-gpk-n-report-f-35-no-fixed-price-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T17:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T15:18:13","slug":"swiss-gpk-n-report-f-35-no-fixed-price-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/it\/swiss-gpk-n-report-f-35-no-fixed-price-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Oversight Report: There Was Never an F-35 Fixed Price"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n\r\n<p>For four years the Swiss government told parliament and the public the same thing about its <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/f-35-lightning-ii\/\">F-35A<\/a> order: the price was fixed. On Tuesday 8 September 2026 the National Council&rsquo;s Control Committee published a 95-page report saying that no blanket fixed price was ever agreed with the United States.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The committee &mdash; the Gesch&auml;ftspr&uuml;fungskommission des Nationalrats, GPK-N, which is parliament&rsquo;s oversight body &mdash; wrote that against that background it cannot follow the absolute way the defence department communicated to parliament and the public.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:20px 24px;margin:24px 0;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:17px;color:#0d1117\">Quick Facts<\/p><table style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:15px;line-height:1.6\"><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 14px 5px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>What happened<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0;color:#222\">Swiss parliamentary oversight committee published its F-35 procurement report<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 14px 5px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>When<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0;color:#222\">Tuesday, 8 September 2026<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 14px 5px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Who<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0;color:#222\">Gesch&auml;ftspr&uuml;fungskommission des Nationalrats (GPK-N)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 14px 5px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Length<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0;color:#222\">95 pages<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 14px 5px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Core finding<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0;color:#222\">No blanket fixed price was ever agreed with the United States<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 14px 5px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Named<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0;color:#222\">Former defence minister Viola Amherd; former Air2030 project leader Darko Savic<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 14px 5px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Supplementary credit sought<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0;color:#222\">Just under CHF 400 million<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 14px 5px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Fleet impact<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0;color:#222\">Roughly 30 aircraft instead of the 36 ordered<\/td><\/tr><tr><td style=\"padding:5px 14px 5px 0;color:#555;vertical-align:top;white-space:nowrap\"><strong>Source<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"padding:5px 0;color:#222\">Keystone-SDA, via watson.ch<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/div>\r\n<h2>What the committee found<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The report is a chronology of what the committee describes as an administrative failure. Three findings stand out.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>First, on the fixed price itself: the GPK-N concluded that no lump-sum fixed price was agreed with the United States, which sits badly against years of unqualified public assurance from the VBS that one existed.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Second, on how the negotiations were run: the committee found the organisation was not fit for purpose, that the VBS did not manage the negotiations closely enough, and that the flow of information was inadequate.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/viola-amherd-swiss-defence-minister.jpg\" alt=\"Viola Amherd, former Swiss defence minister\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Former defence minister Viola Amherd, who is criticised in the GPK-N report. She stepped down in spring 2025, before the full scale of the cost overrun became public. Photo: Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<p>Third, and most damaging: before entering price negotiations with the United States, the VBS had set no negotiating mandate at all, and the talks were handled by an unusually small circle of people.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #d32f2f;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><em>&ldquo;In einzelnen Phasen fehlte sogar die elementarste Form der Aufsicht, konkret ein einfaches Vieraugenprinzip. &mdash; In some phases even the most elementary form of oversight was missing, specifically a simple four-eyes principle.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Gesch&auml;ftspr&uuml;fungskommission des Nationalrats (GPK-N)<\/strong> &mdash; Investigation report on the F-35 procurement, published 8 September 2026<\/div><\/div>\r\n<p>That is an extraordinary sentence to find in a Swiss oversight report about the largest defence procurement in the country&rsquo;s history.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SLUsnOz3bHg\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<h2>How it got here<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Switzerland voted narrowly in September 2020 to fund a new fighter fleet, and in June 2021 the Federal Council selected the F-35A. Thirty-six aircraft were ordered. The fixed price was the political spine of the whole project: it was what made the cost ceiling credible.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>A year ago the Federal Council announced that the fixed price could not be held, and asked parliament for a supplementary credit of just under CHF 400 million to cover additional costs claimed by the United States. It later said that because of the overrun only around thirty aircraft could be bought rather than thirty-six.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/swiss-air-force-fa-18-hornet-axalp.jpg\" alt=\"Swiss Air Force F\/A-18 Hornet firing during the Axalp live-fire demonstration\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">A Swiss Air Force F\/A-18 Hornet at Axalp. The Hornet fleet is what the F-35A is meant to replace, and it is not getting younger while this argument runs. Photo: Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<p>Both Viola Amherd, then defence minister, and Darko Savic, the Air2030 project leader, left their posts in spring 2025. The precise scale of the additional costs only emerged afterwards.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2>Where this leaves the order<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Nothing in the report cancels anything. The GPK-N is an oversight committee; it examines and it criticises. The procurement contract, the payments already made and the delivery schedule are unaffected by a finding that the department misdescribed the deal.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The political question is what parliament does with it. Only yesterday we covered the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/swiss-f-35-svp-fdp-36-jets-supplementary-credit-2026\/\">SVP and FDP push to restore the full 36 aircraft<\/a> by voting the extra money. That argument now has to be had in front of a report saying the department could not accurately describe what it had signed.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/McIJBktvyBI\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<p>For MiGFlug, sitting in Switzerland, this is a domestic story as much as an aviation one. The F-35A is still coming, the first Swiss airframe is already taking shape at Cameri in Italy, and the Hornets it replaces are ageing on schedule regardless of what the Bundeshaus concludes.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<style>.mfq{margin:34px 0 8px}.mfq h2{font:26px\/1.3 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;padding-top:22px;margin:0 0 6px}.mfq .qa details{border-top:1px solid #5C91FF;margin:0;padding:0}.mfq .qa details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee}.mfq .qa summary{cursor:pointer;list-style:none;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:22px 26px;font:18px\/1.7 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117}.mfq .qa summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mfq .qa summary::after{content:\"+\";font:24px Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#3568e0;flex:0 0 auto}.mfq .qa details[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mfq .qa details:hover summary{color:#3568e0}.mfq .qa .a{font:16px\/1.7 \"Gilroy regular\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#454e5e;padding:0 26px 24px}.mfq .qa .a a{color:#3568e0}@media(max-width:680px){.mfq .qa summary{padding:18px 14px;font-size:17px}.mfq .qa .a{padding:0 14px 20px}}<\/style>\r\n\r\n\r\n<section class=\"mfq\"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><div class=\"qa\"><details open><summary>What did the Swiss GPK-N report on the F-35 say?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Control Committee of the Swiss National Council (GPK-N) published a 95-page report on 8 September 2026 finding that no blanket fixed price for the F-35A was ever agreed with the United States. It criticised the defence department&rsquo;s absolute public communication, said the negotiations were not organised appropriately and were not managed closely enough by the VBS, and that the flow of information was inadequate.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Was there ever a fixed price for the Swiss F-35 deal?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">According to the GPK-N report, no lump-sum fixed price was agreed with the United States. This is the central finding, and it contradicts years of public assurances from the Swiss defence department that the price of the 36 aircraft was fixed.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>How much more will the Swiss F-35 cost?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">A year before the report, the Federal Council asked parliament for a supplementary credit of just under CHF 400 million to cover additional costs claimed by the United States. It subsequently said that because of the overrun only around thirty aircraft could be procured instead of the thirty-six originally ordered.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Who is criticised in the report?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Among others, former defence minister Viola Amherd and Darko Savic, the former project leader of the Air2030 programme. Both left their posts in spring 2025, before the full extent of the additional costs became public. The committee was also negatively surprised that the VBS had set no negotiating mandate before the price talks and that the negotiations involved an unusually small group of people.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Does this mean Switzerland is cancelling the F-35?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">No. The GPK-N is a parliamentary oversight committee: it investigates and criticises, but it does not cancel contracts. The procurement, the payments already made and the delivery schedule are unaffected by the report itself. What happens next is a political question for parliament.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>How many F-35s will Switzerland actually get?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">That is still open. Thirty-six were ordered; the Federal Council has said roughly thirty are affordable within the existing budget. The SVP and FDP have been pushing to fund the full thirty-six, which we covered in <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/swiss-f-35-svp-fdp-36-jets-supplementary-credit-2026\/\">this piece<\/a>.<\/div><\/details><\/div><\/section>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"What did the Swiss GPK-N report on the F-35 say?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"The Control Committee of the Swiss National Council (GPK-N) published a 95-page report on 8 September 2026 finding that no blanket fixed price for the F-35A was ever agreed with the United States. 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The SVP and FDP have been pushing to fund the full thirty-six, which we covered in this piece.\"}}]}<\/script><p><em>Sources: Keystone-SDA report published by watson.ch, &ldquo;Angeblicher F-35-Fixpreis: Parlamentsaufsicht r&uuml;gt Bundesrat und VBS&rdquo;, 8 September 2026; investigation report of the Gesch&auml;ftspr&uuml;fungskommission des Nationalrats, 8 September 2026.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">Related Posts<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/swiss-f-35-svp-fdp-36-jets-supplementary-credit-2026\/\">Swiss F-35: SVP and FDP Fight to Restore All 36 Jets<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/swiss-f-35a-cameri-first-fuselage-wing-2026\/\">Switzerland&rsquo;s First F-35 Takes Shape in Italy<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/f-35-price-2026-variant-costs-lots-18-19\/\">F-35 Price 2026: What Each Variant Really Costs Now<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/swiss-patriot-deal-germany-collapses-costs-2026\/\">Swiss Patriot Deal With Germany Collapses, Costs Could Triple<\/a><\/p><\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament\u2019s oversight committee says no blanket fixed price was ever agreed with the US \u2014 and that at times even a simple four-eyes check was missing.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":21146099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[664,670],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21146701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military-aviation","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - 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