Swiss army photos

[hihihi_ch]

some photos from switzerland army!

http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/territorialgrenadiere/SFORCE.JPG
http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/territorialgrenadiere/a1.JPG
http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/territorialgrenadiere/a2.jpg
http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/territorialgrenadiere/trio.jpg
http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/territorialgrenadiere/a3.jpg
http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/territorialgrenadiere/feuer4.jpg
http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/territorialgrenadiere/sniperzug.jpg
http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/territorialgrenadiere/sniperwald.jpg
http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/territorialgrenadiere/rlv.jpg
http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/territorialgrenadiere/sniperdach.jpg
http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/territorialgrenadiere/bedio.jpg
http://www.mypage.bluewin.ch/territorialgrenadiere/pump.jpg
http://mypage.bluewin.ch/territorialgrenadiere/werf.jpg

[Tiger]

Nice pics ! woot

Special Forces ?

[hihihi_ch]

Yes and no... they arn't professional, but yes they are our elite force. (Grenadier)

[Guttorm]

Nice pics, yes, now I'm just waiting for pic's pf the swiss navy... ;) :P

[hihihi_ch]

And now our navy!!! :lol:

http://www.specialoperations.com/Foreign/Switzerland/058.jpg

:P in fact that's an exploration team

and here some other pics :

http://www.specialoperations.com/Foreign/Switzerland/071.jpg
http://www.specialoperations.com/Foreign/Switzerland/089.jpg

[Damn]

Nice Pics :)

Being land-locked and surrounded by mountains makes Switzerland great defensively

[superpeltor]

They jump off fairly tall buildings..... Man..., that's tall

[Ichhabe]

Nice Pics :)

Being land-locked and surrounded by mountains makes Switzerland great defensively

Yeah! I think that was one of the strategic reasons why the Swiss put their country where it is today in the first place. ;)

I also read somewhere that one of the most challenging tasks they had, was getting all those mountains and cliffs were they are today.

The only guy that is not contempt about the situation is the Admiral of the the Grand Swiss Navy.

[REMOV]

The only guy that is not contempt about the situation is the Admiral of the the Grand Swiss Navy.Hmm...
Switzerland does have a small navy of sorts. Lakes Konstanz and Leman (Geneva) form international frontiers, and their navies consist of a few patrol craft. Switzerland also has a major Rhine commercial fleet (you can see the Swiss flag flying all the way to the Netherlands), which military patrol craft in time of war. Both the navy and air force are branches of the army (like the infantry and artillery).

http://www.swissnavy.ch/

http://www.swissnavy.ch/Fotobuch/G8/Auf_dem_P80/pboote.jpg
http://www.swissnavy.ch/Fotobuch/G8/InFormation/formlinienah.jpg
http://www.swissnavy.ch/Fotobuch/G8/InFormation/formzurueck.jpg
http://www.swissnavy.ch/Fotobuch/G8/InFormation/formliniehinten.jpg
http://www.swissnavy.ch/Fotobuch/G8/InFormation/formmithelinochnah.jpg
http://www.swissnavy.ch/Fotobuch/G8/Splitterschutz/splittereschutzvorunterkunft.jpg
http://www.swissnavy.ch/Fotobuch/G8/Auf_dem_P80/ap80liegenlang.jpg

...and a really great naval airforce... ;)
http://www.swissnavy.ch/Fotobuch/G8/Im_Hafen/hafenputzhexvial.jpg

[Salty Dog]

all these pictures are awesome...but the last one in removs set is...wicked awesome.

[Jack Mehoff]

Why should the Swiss even have an Army if they never use them rofl

[Kampfhamster]

Why should the Swiss even have an Army if they never use them rofl

My former commander Colonel Schärer gives you the answer:

"If I never have to go to war, then I did my job good."

The best army is the army which never has to go to war.

[mikec62001]

Does Switzerland have its own Naval Special Warfare unit/s...similar to British SBS, US Navy SEALs etc?

[Jack Mehoff]

Why should the Swiss even have an Army if they never use them rofl

My former commander Colonel Schärer gives you the answer:

"If I never have to go to war, then I did my job good."

The best army is the army which never has to go to war.

rofl this is a joke, right? Decision to go to war is your country decision. Soldiers don't play politic except guns. I mean, how did you do a 'good job' as a soldier if you have no power over it(war)?

[obd]

Hope those dudes jumping off the wall are not landing on concrete hehe. Seems a waste to risk blowing out thier knees or breaking their ankles on a worthless stunt like that!!!! Anyway, nice pics. Not many posts on Swiss Army around here........

[Shadow]

Why should the Swiss even have an Army if they never use them rofl

My former commander Colonel Schärer gives you the answer:

"If I never have to go to war, then I did my job good."

The best army is the army which never has to go to war.

rofl this is a joke, right? Decision to go to war is your country decision. Soldiers don't play politic except guns. I mean, how did you do a 'good job' as a soldier if you have no power over it(war)?

He means deterrence.

[front]

"Why should the Swiss even have an Army if they never use them"

Total resistance.

http://www.greglynn.com/swissnatdef2.html

"A 1940 Newsweek article characterized Switzerland as the world's oldest and purest democracy where, in three cantons, government was still conducted by a show of hands in public squares at the Landsgemeinden. The militia had no officer higher than a colonel in peacetime. "Even when there is no European war on, every member of this militia army of some 500,000 keeps his gun, ammunition, and equipment at home making the Swiss Government the only one in Europe which trusts such a large proportion of citizens with arms.""

cheers

front

[mikec62001]

Does Switzerland have its own Naval Special Warfare unit/s...similar to British SBS, US Navy SEALs etc?

[aktarian]

Why should the Swiss even have an Army if they never use them rofl

Because it's better to have an Army and not need it than not having it and needing it. Why does Sweden have an Army? Or Austria?




this is a joke, right? Decision to go to war is your country decision. Soldiers don't play politic except guns. I mean, how did you do a 'good job' as a soldier if you have no power over it(war)?

However creating strong army that acts as deterrance to enemies is military job.

[Kampfhamster]

@mike: We have some divers, but that's all. We just have some lake's and rivers, we don't need such unitd.

The brandnew "Armeeaufklärungsdetachement" AAD (army reconnaissance detachment) will have a amphibian platoon.

@front: that's history, during the '60 our army had 600'000 soldiers. Now we are reducing the army down to 230'000 soldiers (inclusive some inactive reservists)
Some of the politician also want to disarm us. At the same day, when I have to bring my rifle back I will leave the army, no matter which day I have left to serve.

[Kingpin]

Nice pics.

Swiss mercs were always welcome in other European countries. They guard Pope HQ in Vatican until our days.

[Kampfhamster]

@Kingpin: these days are definately over. We swiss guys are no longer allowed to serve in other countrys.

For example I also have the canadian citizenship, but I'm not allowed to move to Canada to join the army there.
I would have to go to jail as soon as I return to Switzerland.

and here are some more pics from the Grenadiers:




http://grenadier.members.easyspace.com/1982/sprung2.jpg
http://grenadier.members.easyspace.com/1982/sprung5.jpg

[Deuterium]

??????????? Oh you gotta explain this one. Is he rapelling? Slack rapel?

[Deuterium]

Oh wait I see the bottom one looks like the old fireman catch blanket, but the one above???? Serious Stones......

[Kampfhamster]

some more:

machine gunners with the MG51:

http://afd.dev.imagefinder.ch/Lists/400/2266.jpg
our latest toy:
http://afd.dev.imagefinder.ch/Lists/400/6866.jpg

155 mm bunker artillery
http://afd.dev.imagefinder.ch/Lists/400/1847.jpg

10,5 cm gun turret (former Centurion tank turret)
http://afd.dev.imagefinder.ch/Lists/400/3824.jpg

[Dave the Dawg]

@Kingpin: these days are definately over. We swiss guys are no longer allowed to serve in other countrys.
The Vatican is still the exception.

http://www.schweizergarde.org/

http://www.schweizergarde.org/image/grandgala.jpghttp://www.schweizergarde.org/image/fas.jpg

[Jack Mehoff]

http://grenadier.members.easyspace.com/1982/sprung2.jpg

I don't understand this picture

[Kampfhamster]

what's not to understand? :lol He's jumping off the roof of the building.

Seriously: he jumps in the slope (?), so he won't get hurt.

He's a Grenadier, usually they are a kind of weird.

[REMOV]

He's a Grenadier, usually they are a kind of weird.Eh, Switzerland - land of banks, Milka cows and assault rifles in every home. Tiny, calm realm of ex-mercenaries. I remember the quote from the movie "The Third Man": "In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed - but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock." ;)

[Swazilnad]

Hey, i have a bunch of good pictures of Swiss Panzer Grenadiers, if anyone can help me host them i'd be glad to post them.

Cheers,

Swaz

[D-Mitch]

Incredible drums from a swiss military band !!

http://www.biertijd.com/oudbruin/content.php?article.668

[Kenza]

They are not military, still awsome tho