The Russian-French Mistral Class helicopter carrier saga has been a long and rocky one. Originally the two amphibious assault ships were built for Russia, with many Russian combat systems ...

CAIRO – Egypt has received the first of two French-made, Mistral-class helicopter carriers purchased last year in an effort to upgrade its navy. The carrier sailed on Thursday into Egypt's port ...

In fact, in 2010, Moscow was on the brink of finalizing a deal with France that would have seen France selling two advanced Mistral-class helicopter carriers. It took five years of back-and-forth ...

Terms for handing over the Mistral helicopter carrier “have not been met,” French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on France Inter radio today. The ship would substantially increase Russia ...

TASS/. The second Mistral-class helicopter carrier built for Russia, the Sevastopol, is to begin sea trials off the French port of Saint-Nazaire on Monday, a source in the shipbuilding sector has ...

The Mistral class amphibious helicopter-carrier is one of the most important vessels in the French navy One visible result of President Emmanuel Macron's visit to Israel and its neighbours is the ...

Currently, another landing ship that participated in Baltops, the French helicopter carrier Mistral, is visiting Tallinn. This year's Baltops exercise gathered the largest amphibious assault and mine ...

An aerial view shows the Mistral-class helicopter carrier Vladivostok constructed for Russia at the STX Les Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard site in the port of Montoir-de-Bretagne near Saint ...

Additionally, the carrier possesses six-cell Sadral launching systems for the Mistral anti-aircraft and anti-missile systems. The Charles du Gaulle’s avionics suite is also quite formidable ...

French President Francois Hollande delayed indefinitely on Tuesday his decision on whether to deliver the first of two Mistral helicopter carriers ordered by Russia but whose status is in limbo as ...