The Swiss Air Force has regular operating hours · 11:29am Jul 25th, 2014
The Air Force of Switzerland only is in operation from 8:00 to 12:00, and from 13:30 to 17:00, Monday through Friday. According to a Swiss Air Force spokesman, "Switzerland cannot intervene because its airbases are closed at night and on the weekend... It's a question of budget and staffing."
Yes, that's right folks; if you don't attack Switzerland during normal business hours, you're just out of luck; the Swiss Air Force won't respond to you. France, apparently, does have permission to escort suspicious flights into Swiss airspace, but does not have the authority to shoot down planes over Switzerland. So at least they can tell the Swiss later on who dropped bombs on them.
Even Equestria has people on duty at night and during lunch breaks, though in all fairness, they don't have nearly as nice of watches.
So what nation-state in the world of Equestria do you think has regular operating hours for its military?
Ahh, the luxury of neutrality.
The dragons, because who would be stupid enough to try anything?
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Well, the Swiss DO make their lair on mountains and sleep on vast piles of gold...
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You might be on to something there...
Yeah but who the hell's gonna attack Switzerland? Everyone's got their money in Switzerland.
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Air pirates. Strike at 6pm on Friday, and you'd have a good 60 hours of looting before you'd need to go run off.
I'd think that camels' general aerospace incompetence and insane regulations would lead to them having business hours.
Also, the defense force posted in Las Pegasus is well known to be lax.
2314799 They are, however, extremely accurate spitters.
When has anyone ever dropped a bomb on Switzerland? Napoleon, maybe?
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Oh, I don't deny that no one really is all that interested in invading Switzerland, but it just raises the question of why they even bother having an air force in the first place.