ZURICH (Reuters) -Switzerland's government was meeting to pick a next-generation fighter plane on Wednesday after a decade-long political tug-of-war over a 6 billion Swiss franc ($6.5 billion) contest among bidders from Europe and the United States.
Contenders include the Rafale from France's Dassault, Boeing's F/A-18 Super Hornet, Lockheed Martin's F35-A Lightning II and the four-nation Eurofighter built by Germany and Spain backed Airbus, Italy's Leonardo and Britain's BAE Systems.
