Possible to deny Russia the first helicopter type " Mistral " in a contractually specified time will undermine the credibility of the French military-industrial complex, said the people's choice National Assembly, co-chair of the Association Franco-Russian dialogue " Thierry Mariani.

" The refusal to pass Mistral would be suicide from the perspective of reliability and credibility of the French military industry. What confidence can we talk in fact supply (fighters) Rafale in India, if France does not comply with its obligations to Russia on the supply of " Mistral ", - wrote Mariani in private in his microblog on Twitter.

on Wednesday, the administration of the President of the French Republic, fran?ois Hollande, at the meeting of the French security Council distributed a communiqu?, according to which the head of the country in connection with the development of the situation in Ukraine was considered insufficient by today's rule to send the first Russian Mistral.

the contract for manufacture and delivery of two (2) helicopter carrier was concluded between the French company DCNS and the " Rosoboronexport " in 2011. The contract value is 1, 2 billion euros. The first vessel - " Vladivostok " - was obliged to enter service with the Russian Navy in 2014, the second - " Sevastopol " in 2015. Against delivery of the vessels came from the United States. For its part, in DCNS assured that punishment the US do not have the ability to prevent the construction and the transfer of " Mistela ".

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