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F-35 Shock: Switzerland Pulls Back - Could Canada Be Next Under Trump?
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- Published on Mar 13, 2026
- Switzerland pulls back from the F-35 after U.S. tariffs and NATO pressure, raising a bigger question: is this fighter jet becoming a political loyalty test under Donald Trump? As Canada reviews its $19B F-35 deal, this video breaks down NATO tensions, defense spending demands, and why allies are rethinking reliance on U.S.-controlled weapons systems.
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Owning an F-35 is like buying a car from a dealership and asking their permission to use your own car! Full support for Canada's purchase of the Gripens. 🇧🇷❤️🇨🇦
Ferrari has a model like that.
Buy the Saab. If you look at it the Saab is the better deal. Also the price of the F35 keeps increasing dramatically.
The part about the F35 being tied to the US is true. We have a man child as president who like to think that he is untouchable. And to a point he is but this clown has no self control. He believes his own lies.
While right now the US is holding tight on the tech. But it is true that the planes get updates from the mfg. And to say they are a bit slow is not true,they are almost dead.
The hours of cost to fly are nuts. The Gripe. Or even the euro fighter would be a much better choice that the F 35. The stealth dies work but the numbers built per year is so slow.
And Trump think that is good Business to withdraw from contracts. The honor is not something he think high of.
@williampeyton848 At this point I'd even prefer my country to buy the Chinese Js than any F35s from USA. China may want to dominate the world economically but at least it is not threatening allies with millitary invasions or annexations.
Control of use by another nation? Don’t be ridiculous. That should kill the purchase at the outset.
You understand that the UK can not launch a nuclear missile without US approval? You understand that the US can stop all EU/NATO SAMs and defence systems whenever they want?
Nope. The Jet itself may still fly. But what good is it without combat systems integration. And thats 100% controlled by US. This was never a problem.... until the dumbest fascist asshole got elected president again...
@indivestor First steps away from the US hegemony must start now.
@indivestor lol try that in a war. All agreements end during war when such "ally" is actually the one threatening you. And all digital or otherwise systems can be rigged or partially/totally replaced eventually. So ya they can "stop" them while we are allies and "Follows" voluntarily, past that good luck stoppiong anything if you become an enemy.
I live in Switzerland and we don't know anything yet about the F35 withdrawal.
this is likely some AI channel run by China
"you" are buying less. They planed to buy 36. But they capped at 6 Billion Franken. Because the jets gotten way more expensive, they now buy only 30. From withdrawal this is far away.
Sage war you didn't know anything about NAZI GOLD MADE FROM DEAD JEWS GYSPSIES RUSSIANS TEETH
Yeah ... making an enemy nation your military hardware supplier isn't a good idea.
All countries should return all of the F-35's back to the US and demand a refund. 🙂
Amazon review:
"Outrageously overpriced. Terribly rude unreliable costumer service. Would never recommend."
Recommend Gripens with Rolls Royce engines.
100% agree!!!!
Canada is to weak to do anything
You gave banana to monkeys and ask to return good luck just cut the loss and go with alternative options
@BlMains so, where you from little bot?
Just to clarify - the JAS 39 Gripen does NOT have a Rolls Royce engine, period.
And there are no plans to change that. Choosing another engine is almost like building a plane from scratch, since the plane is built around the engine. It would mean at least a 10-15 year development project with all the trials and tests required, assuming the engine has the necessary characteristics, which is doubtful.
I'm Swiss, I haven't seen anything about the oder being cancelled in the news or the government releases.
WAIT!? People on RUclips making shit up!?!?!? NO WAY!!!
They didn’t say “cancel”, just spill back (cuts).
I wish that Denmark cancelled their F-35 order as well
This seem like a no- brainer, pay us and we still control what you buy. Why would anyone do this?
F-35: "Your ejection seat subscription has expired, please update your payment methods"
This is typical American bullying. Scrap the deals and go independent, and buy something you own, and you can control yourself.
Canada can get much more benefits from buying Gripen than F35
Gripen has American engines as we talk.
They are planning to change them to Rolls Royce ones. Nonetheless, the price of the bird will increase.
Owning an F35 is not owning it. It's not yours, so why buy it? It's a money grab.
This is exactly right. US weapons systems that allow tampering by US officials should not be purchased.
It is a Subscription!
I saw another video where they said it costs $4,000 a hour to fly a Grippen and $30,000 to $40,000 an hour to fly an F-35.
Essentially true, though I think the Gripen operating cost is closer to $8000. You also need to factor in the 50% downtime reported by the US Air Force for their F35 fleet in non-Arctic conditions, which compares to 10-30% downtime with the Gripen. The Saab deal proposing a North American production facility in collaboration with Bombardier Canada also includes the Golden Eye Surveillance AWAC, which will be produced in Bombardier's Toronto facility (the Gripen will be built by Bombardier in Montreal). Although the Gripen lacks 5th generation stealth capabilities, its superior radar jamming does much to remedy this shortcoming. Add the fact that the Gripen can launch from a 900m road or ice highway, with a 10 minute turn-around time to re-fuel and re-arm with a small unspecialized ground crew. In comparison, the F35 requires heated ground storage, a 2.4 km paved runway, and a 4h time to re-fuel and re-arm with a larger, specialized ground crew. As a Canadian, I'm all for the Gripen deal.
@wellingtoncrescent2480 Don't overlook the 90+% downtime for the F35 in Arctic conditions.
Those are the numbers for older Gripens that don't compete as well. The more modern ones are more expensive go run, but still about half that of an F35
@Wallstreetavarice And those older Gripens still perform a lot better in Arctic conditions than the F35.
And you get fewer potential flight hours, as it needs more/longer service with special trained crew just to refule and rearm.
Jas need on expert and then conscripts to do the same. Yes, we have designed it so to be able to handle an attack from Russia.
F-35 is designed to attack another country when you set the scheduled, not for defence. Where you have to be ready all the time, like every plane counts. All the time.
F-35 relies on attack technology, stealth.
Gripen is designed to defend, when you Enemy already is on full alert. And stealth is not that important.
Communication and knowledge about the current situation is in the air is way more important. That the pilot/plane knows where Enemy are way before the plane physically have detected the Enemy flying object and can intercept an much faster object before it past, or launch an attack on the right direction before being in physical sight.
That is what Gripen does.
Yes, SAAB fighters are the only known fighters that have had a lock on US spy plane.
Switzerland didn't pull back...!
video fails to say that one Grippen Saab jet only needs a maintenance crew of 5 persons, vs 40-50 workers for one F35. And that it can operate in harsh conditions. While the F35 can't fly in therain or when it snows!!!
Surely Switzerland is not in NATO?
France, after 60+ years of mockeries : "told you sooo..."
Why someone sure pay a heg of money for something who can't have COMPLETELY CONTROL???
Gripen for many reasons, starting with practicality...
Rafale because 2 engines
Two engines are actually two Point of failures.
It is actually less engine problems, and more air time with one
It is called probability and is a bitch when you have not trained to do thatath correctly.
Yes, I also used to think two or three are better for redundancy. It isn't.
There are other reasons to have two or more engines. Cost might be one, but service and dependency and easier service is not any one those.
we (switzerland) do not cancel the F-35 program - only potential adjustments to the number of aircraft because of rising costs...
What a shame !
Thanx for the laugh this morning
Does the jet Display ads to the pilots? Hate that my tax money is ised for such a bad thing
Its called counter party risk, Canada, Switzerland and Nato are just learning that now ? 😅
Go Gripen, yes dated tech but at least you will own and control the airframes.
Your information may be outdated as Ottawa has made payments related to the acquisition of 14 additional U.S.-built F-35 fighters jets.
Sorry, but I cannot find any source that Switzerland has officially canceled it's orders. Currently there are ongoing discussions within parliament about it but nothing final.
La Suisse ne se retire pas du tout
C’est n’importe quoi….
is this AI or did the person forget how to say NATO at 8:05
I noticed that too. It's AI.
A POA (Plane Qwner Association)?
The only thing our government in Switzerland is discussing atm is reducing the number of F-35s to be purchased!!!
F35 soon coming to shopee and lazada
old video. 19B now 28B
Tell the US to go fly their kite.
So many errors in this AI slop
Canada has agreed to purchase parts for 14 more F-35’s bringing the current agreed upon total from 16 to 30. I don’t think people will want to come to terms with it, and I’m not saying I agree with it, but I’d say it’s pretty clear Canada is going with the F-35.
Any reason why no mention was made of the one country that has independence over its use of the F-35? Would that country being in the Middle East be a reason?
When Chump weaponized allies' dependency on the US for collective security, what did he expect the allies would do in response? Come to Washington to stroke his ego and to beg him for more dependency? Or to disentangle themselves from Chump ASAP?
Britain should never have bought F35's, they'll end up being stuck on the ground, can't believe the RAF fell for the American spiel....
The latest F35 delivery came without the radar - they are using them with fricking ballast in the nose - what a farce
Nations who once considered America an ally need to realize that they need to cut the cord, dump America, and strengthen bonds with true allies.
So much for the "Art of The Deal..."
Please get rid of AI narrative.
The world is unstable because of Trump. To be safe buy European or Canadian.
A car dealership wants to sell you a brand-new car. They can change the price and tell you when you can drive it. Would you buy that can?
Europe should pool their resources around the already acquired F35 and reverse engineer the shit out of it and tell no one. Recoup the cost this way and invest in Rafale, Gripen, Typhoon.
ruclips.net/video/VXl_JO2xFE0/video.htmlsi=VbX1FYh3I_vMSWOK literally it has been confirmed they did buy the planes.
Did your AI just say "Nah-toe"? Jesus H Crispy.
Switzerland here. You don't f**k with us. We are the effing bank. Get it.
If pm Carney buys f-35 jets I'm switching governments I lost all respect now
What ever we buy, we need to rip it apart and get rid of all the bugs. The F35 is now an old fighter jet.
NATO has only a future without TRUMP!
Rafale, Gripen.
Much better than Korean military products.
A failed product,
low-end American technology,
with 24-hour over promotions,
but still no one is interested to contract.
Big ambitions with false over pride in local production and excessive crazy prices.
Still Poor quality and will never prove itself on the battlefield. Sad.
Well padded out video.
NAA TO? AI still sucks
It's exactly like buying a John Deere combine. You only think you own it.
Just had exactly the same thought.
Can you imagine buying the car Dad wants from him with your money and you have to get clearance to take it on dates…?
What are you doing? I want some F-35 for my kids. Buy them for me.
Long term relationship with the orange transactional president …. BAD IDEA
Trump is the anker arround people's necks.
A drone can blow up an F35 on the ground as easily as a Gripen. But at least you can get spares for a Gripen.
So many comments here indicate many/most don't realize the huge capability gap between the F35 & the Gripen. So many times the 'cheapest option' has turned out to be an extremely expensive option. It is time for cool heads with reasoning to prevail.
It’s called the TDS syndrome
Virtually every move Trump makes accelerates the demise of the US. Late stage capitalism isn't pretty to begin with, but when you compound it by alienating every single trade and military partner you ever had? 🚽
@HobokenSquatCobblerlol thanx for the laugh
TDS is killing the feminist country of Canada or is it Muslim. Canada has no problem freezing your bank accounts, won’t happen here. Femboi Trudeau destroyed what Canada had for a military . Canada is all talk with no action. 1 aircraft carrier has more planes than Canada does. Wasn’t Canada that flew to Vancouver’s hijacking.. it was Americas AF that was there
5.3% gdp is no demise sis but Canada 1.1 % is
Gripen E: the jet for the north.
too bad FCAS gets clobbered by the petty haggeling about "project lead" between Germany and France.
Nobody can trust the US.
I have Swiss report that proves that after all tests, they had declared the Dassault Rafales the best choice for their defense allowing air supporitity un direct encouters to ensure airspace sovereignty. One day, Biden called Bern and they purchased the F35 after direct threats. Your defense can only be proposed if you control your airplanes and if they air airworthy; the Swiss know how expensive the F35 are from information that comes from Norway and Korea.
I would astonished if F35 software doesn't come with a hidden killswitch. Buying F35s is a massive mistake.
THX!!!
Canada Pressroom - Canada has bought them - deal done.
Can I have your order please - "What is the total?" - Never mind that - pull up to the window -
Check your info….Switzerland did NOT pull out (unfortunately) they are just slightly reducing the order for budget reasons
Absolutely right, but as a Swiss I always would have preferred the Grippen!
@Lupodimare1234me too , also swiss
The F35 contract was sold to the Swiss people as a "fixed price". But this is a plane designed, not for air superiority (what Switzerland needs), but for deep strikes and interoperability with NATO (what Switzerland doesn't need). Then, of course, the price changed.. Maybe the elected people who signed this disaster should be investigated?
Es ser esclavos de los USA, si no les intetesa defender o apollar un socio, te dejan los aviones en tierra. Vaya colaboración.
Unconscionable to handcuff your country under the boot of another…
Fact-check on the Swiss situation: The term 'pulling back' is misleading here. Switzerland hasn't changed its strategic decision, but it is strictly adhering to the 6 billion CHF budget cap approved by the voters. If unit costs or inflation rise, the number of aircraft is adjusted to stay within that legal financial limit. This is a matter of 'sticking to the agreed budget' and maintaining fiscal discipline, rather than a political withdrawal from the F-35 program.
That being said, public sentiment has shifted significantly. Many Swiss citizens would likely vote differently today. The F-35’s extreme software dependency is increasingly seen as a threat to national sovereignty. In hindsight, relying so heavily on the US system appears to have been a mistake. The Saab Gripen represents the independence, versatility, and robustness that is actually valued in Switzerland.
False information - Switzerland did not pull back the F-35 order. And yes: Switzerland is not a member of NATO - Switzerland is neutral.
Hop Schwyz! Hop Schwyz! I have never been prouder to be Swiss! Trump had also laid a whopper of a tariff on all Swiss goods except for drugs. Payback time.
Switzerland has not completely pulled out of the F-35 deal (unfortunately). They just reduced the number of jets because they have to stay within budget. It's NOT an answer to tariffs, just a financial consequence. With friends like the US government you don't need enemies...
She cant protect Canada fire her and put someone who will get the job done.
Canadians and europeans should rather buy the french Rafale, Dassault is ready to install a factory in order to build Rafales in Canada and maybe also in other european countries.
Trump and his greasy henchmen thought they were being clever by forcing the rest of NATO to up their spending. (The previous model was that the US would use its armed forces to project power, while NATO countries bought American goods and services.). They believed NATO countries had no alternative but to buy their arms from the USA,. They were wrong, and now they're upset.
The US does what greedy corporations have been trying to do for some time: maintain a paralegal ownership and control over the products they sell to their customers. It's why there is now a 'right to repair' movement. Absurd restrictions over how Ukraine used their weapons, the interference with Germany's transfer of MRAPS, and so on.
It's quite breathtaking how they hold everyone to standards they blatantly ignore.
And another one has had enough of the US. Great.
Wonder why China is not coming out with a jet? DRONES !!!
They are thousands of them coming with very low heat signature, how do you defend?
Blitzkrieg is what they called it
Do Canada want to be a US Colony or an independent country?
This is the decision they make with F-35 fighter airplanes.
Software for the fighter is designed and programmes in USA, and changes in design for the F-35 had to go through USA.
The JAS Gripen Canada is handed a design, and can do changes of their own. It doesn't need approval from Sweden and SAAB. And you will have knowledge about the fighter to add and test Canadian modifications.
It gives sovereign control over the planes after the deal. And all systems are working now, not after the planes are some to Canada.
And dual fighters in air forces are not unknown. Like when transit to a new model of fighters.
US control is not what Canada should require. Diversion is the key not Washington, at all.
MisterRoger84I agree with you…
The F35 has been a failure from the outset.
the F35 deal is horrible all the way around. Buying them locks you into a contract that balloons in cost at America's whim. Each plane has an initial cost and then the cost of ownership that you cannot control. Its 300 million a plane to start and 50k each time it takes off, not to mention how much they want to charge you to service the plane, cause they wont let you do it. This all in a plane by the way that will lose to an f-18 in a dogfight.
Gripen deal signed over 5 weeks ago approval to build a factory in Canada at 400 million dollars approved this week
I hope so
If america feels countries need f35s then they should provide them and pay for their upkeep while the host nations also pursue independent assets to maintain autonomy in prosecuting its seperate military requirements. Trumps direction for nato to increase military spending was more to do with buying US weapons, not on parity partnerships. Reliance on a foriegn power for your military materials makes you suseptible to their political and financial mandates rendering it impotent should you clash with these designs. Case in point US is now struggling to actually manufacture these aircraft as they are reliant on essential metals from Canada. This is now been blocked due to the change of american foriegn and financial policies. Never put all your eggs in onebasket.
Europe should classify american technology as dangerous as Chinese or russian technology. Same threat.
I don’t understand why this Canadian government hasn’t told Trump that there buying the Gripen. There still putting billions in the f35 at least that’s what i heard today.
We signed a contract for 16. So we have to take those...but we need a fleet of 80 + fighters. I'd like to see us take the Gripen.
MisterRoger84 Unlike our American neighbors...we keep our word.
MisterRoger84 Not so fast...we can be pricks. I'd take those shiny new F35's and sell 4 to China, 4 to Russia, 4 to North Korea and 4 to Iran. Mischief managed my friend...😂
None of this would be an issue if tRUMP hadn't torpedoed NATO's trust in America's commitment to NATO...
This just a contract signing up to dependence on the US and Europeans should not accept this. Buy European planes and refuse to comply.
The F35 makes the US the FREE WORLDS “ PUPPETEER “
This would NOT be SHARED defense. It would be directed and managed by a separate country. Literally "F'd 35 times or more! 👎👎👎GRPEN all the way!!
The F35 is far too slow to be used as an interceptor. It takes sometimes hours to start in cold weather it's stealth capabilities have been rendered useless by recent radar development. The hourly costs and less than 50% serviceability has made training next to impossible. Paint them orange and rename to the Trump Fighter Over weight very slow (both meanings of the word) and more noise than action.
We’ve been paying the bill for the past 60 years for the defense of those countries and you’re making a sound like we are taking advantage of them take a study in your history
USA is the rich guy who spends so much money stocking his garage with weapons and ammo that he has to borrow money for food and other necessities. And he's surprised that everyone else on the block doesn't share his weird obsession.
No es verdad el ministro d3 defensa quiere comprar los aviones del desgenerado de trump a pesar que este sigue con sus criticas contra Suiza , pero contra el nazi putin asesino nazi es un cero a la izquierda,
Repetitive
The answer is simple. IF F-35 is a NATO project. NATO should own the updates and maintenance, not the US. If that independence is not possible, stop buying F-35.
Fuck i vote for that 💪 good to be swiss💪