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Last ever Pilatus PC-6 has been built and delivered to Indonesian customer, end of an era View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XjcUI-hY84 Anyhow in the last couple of Airpower Airshows, been a pleasure to see the Bundesheer Pc6 as well as the Flying Bulls one (my pics below) cheers

The C-35 and the C-36 are well known, actually built, aircraft of "Eidgenössische Konstruktionswerkstätte" in Thun. The planned C-37 is rather less known. Last year I had the chance to re-work an 1978-article of "Cockpit" and I was lucky to get to see a painting of Roland Eichenberger -...

Mit Genehmigung des Autors des ursprünglichen Artikels und dank der Gemälde von Roland Eichenberger konnte ich einen projektierten Hochleistungsjäger der Eidg. Flugzeugwerke Emmen etwas detaillierter darstellen:

The mysterious and enigmatic Direx assault rifle 1956 "In the early 1950's, there existed a firm known as Rexim S.A., with offices in Geneva. While CETME, of Spain, was developing the unfinished German Sturmgewehr 45 (M) the Rexim company began an parallel development of another assault rifle...

So it has come to my attention that the Swiss developed some type of airborne attack rocket during WWII, however finding information, let alone pictures of it has proven impossible for me. Does anyone here happen to have more information on the subject? I do know that the Swiss had some type of...

Does anyone have any more or better information about the Saurer FLB 2000 engine from the 1940s? Some of the information indicates maybe 2 stroke, fuel injection, opposed pistons, rhombic drive? http://www.saurer-romandie.ch/La%20maison%20Saurer/les%20dates%20et%20faits%20importants.htm

Enjoy ! Projects of the "Institut für AerodynamiK" Does anybody knows more ? http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Dia_240-276_29408.html http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Dia_240-191_30044.html...

Here is some data on the original big MOWAG 8x8. The following information has been copied from Jane’s Light Tanks and Armoured Cars 1984 by Christopher F. Foss. It is posted here for educational purposes. MOWAG Shark Weapons Carrier Development The Shark has been developed by the MOWAG...

Interestingly, in the 1950s the Swiss Oerlikon company designed several surface-to-air missiles. Here are links to very few websites that contain any information on the projects: http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/app4/mx-1868.html...

I'm still working on the text, in the meantime, enjoy some pics. Plan view is ALR Piranha 4, with additional side view of Piranha 2D and scrap view of two seat nose.

Swiss firm Mowag developed a tank destroyer concept in the 1970's..any other information about why it did not go into service, or was it just a Mowag project to test interest in the concept.

Interesting front engined MBT proposal for the Swiss Army, the NKPz ended up to expensive and the auto loader was apparently problematic.