Swiss military to trial transporting helicopter by plane

The Swiss Air Force is testing the transport of a Cougar helicopter in an aircraft. The exercise is due to last seven days, the army said on Thursday. The helicopter will be dismantled and loaded by Swiss military personnel at Dübendorf air base near Zurich. It will then be transported by German army aircraft to Emmen in canton Lucerne, where it will be unloaded and reassembled. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox This exercise will help to develop the capabilities needed for disaster relief operations abroad and for military peace-building, according to the army. Adapted from French by DeepL/ac How we work This news story has been written and carefully fact-checked by an external editorial team. At SWI swissinfo.ch we select the most relevant news for an international audience and use automatic translation tools such as DeepL to translate it into English. Providing you with automatically translated news gives us the time to write more in-depth articles. If ...