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Russia officially gave up on Mistrals

Russian Aviaton » Wednesday July 1, 2015 17:26 MSK

Mistral class ship

Russia has finally given up on Mistral deal with France; the only thing discussed now is the amount of compensation, TASS reports with reference to Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Military-Industrial Commission of Russia, Oleg Bochkarev.

“The fact is that Russia will not take delivery of the Mistrals. The only thing being discussed is the sum, which should be returned to Russian Federation,» he said.

After giving up on Mistrals Russia is going to start development of its own assault ships, but the vessels will belong to another class; Russia is not going to copy the French ships, Bochkarev said.

«We have a project for development of such ships, but we are going to construct ships of another class, we have different ideology in terms of landing of troops. We have no aim to copy Mistral,» he said.

Bochkarev added that this is not about helicopter carriers. «Assault ships, of course, the assault ones,» he said answering the question whether this referred to helicopter carriers or assault ships.

Earlier a source close to the industry said that the development of helicopter carriers is not included in plans of the national defense industry.

In 2011 Russia signed a contract with France for delivery of Mistral helicopters. Russian navy should have taken delivery of the first vessel in autumn 2014; however France put the delivery on hold in connection with the situation in Ukraine. Delivery of the second ship was scheduled for 2015, but its delivery was also put on hold.

It was reported that the French party is ready to pay compensation in case Mistrals will not be delivered to Russia. Moscow stated multiple times that it would be satisfied with any decision: vessels or money.

Russian officials said many times that termination of the contract will not affect the country’s defense capabilities, while United Ship-Building Corporation said that it’s ready to construct similar vessels in case of placing the corresponding order. Earlier the President of Russia Vladimir Putin said that the order for Mistrals was “first of all, placed in order to support our partners and provide workload for their shipyard».

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