You were from 2007 to 2010 project manager of aviation for the Evaluation Partial Tiger Replacement (TTE). So you're the fighter jet Gripen C / D flying, how was that?
It was very interesting and instructive. We are all three candidates, so the Rafale from France, the Euro Fighter from Germany and even the Gripen of Sweden flown for testing. In each case, all the pilots were flying on airplanes all the same tasks, and so the fighter jets could be compared uniformly. We tried to provide the most accurate and reliable assessment.
Can you stand as an expert in the Air Force after the final round for the Gripen, Type E/F?
Yes, 100 percent. It meet all three tested types identified by the military requirements of Switzerland. It depends on what you need and how much you are willing to pay. There are Ferraris, who can not drive off-road, and trucks that are just too slow. The Audi quattro is fast and affordable. And in this case even more money for the army, which indeed still
on new purchases. The Gripen can be for the air policing and air defense used in all weather conditions. He can fight ground targets and be used as a scout. The Gripen C / D is robust, is for relatively low operating costs and has proven itself in the Swedish Air Force and the best international standards.
Could you discuss the decision with Federal Councillor Ueli Maurer?
Yes, I think it's good that Ueli Maurer will consult with various experts. Decisions and the political responsibility but must ultimately own the Federal Council.
Can you understand that there is now a media circus is coming?
Partly. There are some who doubt whether everything is up politically and technically correct. Since I can only say that I am fully committed, even though I am no longer responsible. I put my hand into the fire, that's what I'm headed and what we did, was made possible. The three candidate countries have confirmed that we have the most challenging but also a fair evaluation conducted. The more it is now a mess, that recently reached an interim report to the public.
This interim report is taken out of context and does not show the context of the overall evaluation. Finally, we were obliged to discretion. As someone has acted criminally. The report is subject to military Vertaulichkeit.
Why are these reports are subject to the confidentiality level?
The present provider fillet pieces on their aircraft. You must disclose all the technology behind it, the used system services and computer programs, everything. Since it is understandable that these secret data should be treated as confidential. There are trade secrets as elsewhere. However, the standstill agreement and promise was unfortunately injured, has been abused. This confidence in Switzerland has been weakened even more, as with the banks. That annoys me. Which is to say, that this is an early 2008 report concerns that arose before the first full report.
Switzerland is not buying now, but the aircraft that are flown. What's the difference?
There are four points that have been improved. These include, first, a more powerful engine, the 33-percent more power than that of C / D. The plane was modified so that it can accommodate a larger tank. In addition, 46 percent more kerosene to be carried in the aircraft. It has two other Waffenaufhängestationen. Fourth, a very modern radar was installed, the Aesa radar. This radar does not work mechanically, but with an active electronic beam steering.
But now, the new model, the Gripen E / F, never flown for testing. Switzerland bought the cat in the bag?
We have tested the old model is very intense. We were in the valuation of improvements very cautious and evaluated with a restrictive rating. In addition, the new systems are known, one must first invent anything new. Knowing the radar. Behind a large tank or behind the additional Waffenaufhängestationen is not a new technology, but more range and longer duration. Even the new engine is already used in other aircraft, for example, the new F / A 18 E / F (Super Hornet) were tested.
Now, if the new model would not match but the ideas of Switzerland, could be put on the brakes?
Saab would have to stand straight up what is promised is actually implemented.
Why the new model has never flown for testing?
At the time of evaluation, there was no point in flying to the technology demonstrator already. Then the whole lengthy evaluation work had begun again from scratch. It was decided from the beginning that we fly the then-current models, which are in the Air Force of the candidates in action. If we later want to fly the newer version of the Gripen, we would have to fly the aircraft of the revised French and the Germans. The decision in favor of the Gripen E / F, other factors were crucial, as the cost of maintenance, cost, operating costs, training, exchange, cooperation between the countries. So, factors not related directly to the flying performance.
When a Swiss pilot, flying its first Gripen E / F?
At least in the first week of May this year, a test pilot of an Air Force pilot and Armasuisse the new Gripen E / F (technology demonstrator) as two-seaters.
Res Schmid, born 1958, lives with his wife in Emmetten. He is the father of two grown children. In 1979 he graduated from the military as a military pilot training and became a commercial pilot in the squadron supervision. Schmid was one of the 1981 Season service on Tiger F-5, and from 1984 on Mirage III. From 1984 to 1986 he was a member of the patrol Suisse. He was project pilot on the F / A 18 and later head of the delegation F/A-18-Projektteams system verification, and flight tests in the United States. From 2004 to 2010 was chief test pilot of the Schmid Armasuisse (testing and procurement organization for new military equipment). He listened to as a test pilot when he was Nidwaldner Government. He served as chief test pilot and project manager of aviation for the Evaluation Partial Tiger Replacement (TTE) from 2007 to 2010. Today, Col. Res Schmid, 20 percent by the Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sports (VBS) employed. There he worked as an expert for the Air Force, aerospace and security policy. 80 percent of the SVP politician operates as a council, as educational director of the Canton of Nidwalden.
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