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21 of November, 14:29

The Navy of the Russian Federation: working on "Mistral" has given a great experience of the industry of Russia
Work on landing the helicopter carrier type "Mistral" has given a great experience of the industry of the Russian Federation, said on the first day of the weekend in the radio station's assistant chief of the Russian Navy on military-scientific work of the captain of 1 rank Andrey Surov.

"Our industry is very tightly worked on the creation of these 2" Mistral ", which in the end (the French - ed.) did not want us to deliver, and sufficient experience gained. We hope that in the new projects they will consider, " said stern.

He said that the aft part of the 2nd "Mistral" was made at all in Russian - the Baltic company.

"The same concerned, as well as among them, communication systems and automation," added stern.

the contract for production and delivery of 2 helicopter carrier type "Mistral" cost 1, 2 billion Euro was concluded between the French DCNS/STX and Rosoboronexport in 2011. France had to give 1st ship "Vladivostok" in November last year, but due to the events in Ukraine and the imposition of sanctions against Russia that never was. In early August, Moscow and Paris adopted a conclusion on termination of validity of the contract for the construction and supply of 2 ships-docks-type " Mistral ".

France after the return of the Russian equipment installed on the " Mistral ", will be able to dispose of the helicopter. First it was claimed that the head of the French Republic Francois Hollande reached an agreement with its Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi under the terms of the sale 2 destined for the Russian Federation helicopter type " Mistral ". As a result Paris was able to sell two ships to Egypt, a contract was signed on 10 October. It is assumed that in Egypt the ships will arrive in the summer of 2016.

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