Navy commander: Russian helicopter carriers will lay down by May 9

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Navy commander: Russian helicopter carriers will lay down by May 9: 

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Ships will have the best characteristics in comparison with the Mistrals.

Two Russian universal landing helicopter carriers will be laid in Russia by May 9. This was announced by the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov.

He also specified that the ships will relate to a completely new project.

“This is a completely new project. Their displacement will amount to more than 20 thousand tons with the best [in comparison with the Mistral ships - ed.] Seaworthiness, operational and structural characteristics, with landing and helicopters, ”Evmenov said.

Earlier, the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov said that in Russia they would not create a helicopter carrier in its purest form. In September 2018, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov announced the construction of helicopter carriers. A year later, Oleg Ryazantsev, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, announced that the Russian Navy could receive the first helicopter carrier until 2027.

Helicopter carriers "Mistral"

In 2011, Russia and France signed a contract for the construction and delivery of two universal Mistral-type helicopter-carrier landing ships for the Russian Navy.

Ships were built in cooperation with the Baltic Shipyard, which designed the stern of the ships. Under this project, Russia acquired software with which the design was carried out. The first ship was supposed to be delivered at the end of 2014.

In 2015, the contract was terminated in the wake of anti-Russian sanctions, France returned to Russia about 900 million euros. These ships were later acquired by Egypt. Russia supplies them with the Ka-52K Katran helicopters.


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