Posted on 09/19/2009 6:27:40 PM PDT by george76
Russia said on Saturday it had started talks with France for an unprecedented deal to buy a new helicopter-carrying assault warship from NATO-member France.
The Russian government daily Rossiiskaya Gazeta reported last month that the ship, which can carry 16 heavy helicopters, 470 airborne troops and other gear, costs 700 million euros (995 million dollars).
(Excerpt) Read more at ca.news.yahoo.com ...
The US would use that for a hospital ship
lulz, Russia can’t build one?
Maybe the French will remember to bolt the props on tightly before the Russians pick it up?
Easier to buy/steal the technology and labor of others.
I'm not demeaning the respectable technical capabilities of either country, but somehow this just seems odd.
I used to work on Navy Carriers as a shipfitter.
I had a Navy Chief once remark that the reason Russia can’t build a true CV is becuase they have yet learned how the the concept of flight deck tie-downs. ;-)
So I guess they’ve decided to trade off flight deck tie downs in exhchange for losing a propeller or two.
lulz
Looks about as modern as an old LPH. When was the last one of those de-comm’ed by the USN?
you GOTTA be kiddin me... oh how the mighty have fallen
I thought the Russkies had one carrier built on the British ski jump deck design. The were flying VTOL Sukhois off of it.
Make sure they put cotter pins in the prop shafts.
Hey buy their carriers.
I hear you get a deal on their catapults.
The Mistral class and the Spanish Juan Carlos I class were the two contenders for Australia’s amphib project.
It became pretty clear early on that the Juan Carlos I was well head of the French offering in a number of important areas.
That said, the French ship is light years ahead of anything the Russians could ever put to sea.
If Russia has a need for only one such ship then it makes lots of sense to buy "off the shelf" instead of starting a multi-year design and construction process. Cross-sales of military equipment are common enough. For example, Russia also buys some UAVs from Israel, even though Russia has several domestically produced UAVs like this one. But different products satisfy different needs. All Russian UAVs are primarily designed for surveillance and generally can't carry weapons.
Looks like the French version has a well deck and a couple of hovercraft.
http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/mistral/
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Thanks!
Are we sure this isn’t some BBC sitcom?
Russian sailors on a French built ship?
I can see it now...
prolly do since iirc they sold their latest failure to India to be finished
p.s. if i HAD to outsource my Navy, i guess i'd trust the Brits a hell of a lot more than the Frogs to build it...
my hovercraft is full of eels.
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