Anti-aircraft guns and rockets for the Korean War
Goods category: War materiel
During the Korean War, Switzerland supplied Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns and ammunition to the United States. In 1953, the Swiss authorities also authorised the export of 300’000 8 cm rockets to the United States.
Effect of the proposed War Materiel Act revision
Under the new Article 22b, the Federal Council could depart from all the licensing criteria in Article 22a under vaguely defined ‘exceptional circumstances’. The public would not have to be informed. For the United States, as a current Annex 2 state, Article 22a paragraph 2bis would remove the exclusion criterion based on participation in an armed conflict and make approval the rule. The Federal Council could refuse a licence only in exceptional cases.
Countries
South Korea
United StatesConflicts
Companies
Time period
1952–1953
Sources
- Reto Moosmann, Lizentiatsarbeit, Aussenhandelsstatistik
- swissinfo.ch, David Eugster: Emil Bührle – die Kunst des Krieges, Abschnitt zu 1953
- Infosperber, 11.09.2018: Schweizer Kriegsmaterial-Exporte – ein doppelbödiges Spiel (Hans Ulrich Jost)