1st Deputy head of the defense Department of the Federation Council Frants Klintsevich believes that the Egyptian calculations may order from Russia for the equipment bought from the French helicopter carrier type " Mistral ".

Paris and Cairo on the First day of the weekend signed a contract for the purchase by Egypt of 2 previously destined for the Russian Federation helicopter type " Mistral ".

"Egypt, buying these" Mistral ", is required to understand what they are built for easy navigation, military equipment and weapons of Russian production. From the beginning they planned. For this reason, we will still win and in the continuation, so to speak, fittings and equipment of these " Mistral ". I Think this is quite a positive side of the question will be, " said the Klintsevich Last news on the First day of the weekend.

to the question about whether the future resale of the courts in Russia, the MP said that, in his vision, Russia will not acquire the " Mistral ".

1st Deputy head of the international Department of the state Duma Leonid Kalashnikov also believes that the Russian side can earn on the sale to Egypt of equipment for " Mistral ".

"I think that the Russian Federation has chances to get income in that additional equipment we did, and here we can the Egyptians come to a common opinion, simply put they equipment. I think that the Egyptians have this thing with pleasure will buy ", - said the MP.

a contract for production and delivery of 2- "Mistral" cost 1, 2 billion Euro was concluded between the French DCNS/STX and the "Rosoboronexport" in 2011. France had to give 1st ship "Vladivostok" in November 2014, but due to the events in Ukraine and the imposition of sanctions against Russia. In early August, Moscow and Paris terminated the contract for the construction and supply of 2 ships-docks-type " Mistral ".

at the end of September it was announced that the head of the French Republic Francois Hollande reached an agreement with its Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on the sale of Egypt 2 destined for the Russian Federation helicopter carrier.

France after the return of the Russian equipment installed on the " Mistral ", will be able to dispose of the helicopter. Senior Commissioner of the Russian Federal service for military-technical cooperation said Last news that " data transfer vessels in case of conclusion of the contract will occur no earlier than 2016, that is after will be stripped of all the Russian equipment that currently stands on these ships and is in the process of dismantling ".

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