The Swiss Air Force is not the Swiss militia.
I heard Italy scrambled jets and escorted plane
According to Stephen P. Halbrook, author of a book called “Target Switzerland”
“Shortly before World War I, the German Kaiser was the guest of the Swiss government to observe military maneuvers.
The Kaiser asked a Swiss militiaman: ‘You are 500,000 and you shoot well, but if we attack with 1,000,000 men what will you do?’
The soldier replied: ‘We will shoot twice and go home.’”
It was a good-natured prod at a somewhat humorous story. It was not a comment on the Swiss Militia or Swiss military capabilities in general, and I didn’t expect it to be taken that way.