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The Mistral class is a class of five amphibious assault ships built by France. Also known as helicopter carriers, and referred to as "projection and command ships" (French: bâtiments de projection et de commandement or BPC), a Mistral-class ship is capable of transporting and deploying 16 NH90 or Tiger helicopters, four landing craft, up to 70 vehicles including 13 Leclerc tanks, or a 40 ...
2 × 30 mm Breda-Mauser. 4 × 12.7 mm M2-HB Browning machine guns. Aircraft carried. 16 heavy or 35 light helicopters. Mistral (L9013) is an amphibious assault ship, a type of helicopter carrier, of the French Navy. She is the fourth vessel to bear the name, and is the lead ship of the Mistral -class amphibious assault ships.
This is a list of active French Navy ships. [1] [2] [3] The French Navy consists of nearly 100 vessels of the Force d'action navale (Naval action force) [4] and the 9 submarines of the Forces sous-marines (Submarine force). Primary assets include one nuclear aircraft carrier, three amphibious assault ships, four air-defence -focused destroyers ...
Aircraft carried. 16 heavy or 35 light helicopters. Dixmude (L9015) is an amphibious assault ship, a type of helicopter carrier, of the French Navy. She is the third vessel to bear the name, and is the third ship of the Mistral class . Dixmude was delivered to the French defence procurement agency on 3 January 2012, three months ahead of schedule.
4 12.7 mm M2-HB Browning machine guns. Aircraft carried. 16 heavy or 35 light helicopters. Tonnerre (L9014; lit. Thunder) is an amphibious assault helicopter carrier of the Marine Nationale. She is the eighth vessel to bear the name and the second ship in the Mistral -class amphibious assault ship series.
Project 23900 amphibious assault ship. Official model of the Project 23900. The Project 23900 Ivan Rogov is the newest class of Russian amphibious assault ships intended as a replacement for the French Mistral class, two of which were ordered by Russia in 2011, but that France refused to deliver in September 2014 due to the Russo-Ukrainian War ...
ENS Gamal Abdel Nasser (L1010) is an Egyptian Navy amphibious assault ship, a type of helicopter carrier, of the French-designed Mistral class. She was originally built for the Russian Navy and underwent sea trials. [9] Subsequently, the contract was cancelled by France and agreement on compensation reached with the Russian government.
List of active landing craft of the French Navy is a list of landing craft currently in service with the French Navy.These craft operate from the Mistral-class amphibious assault ships in service with the Force d'action navale (Naval Action Force) and are also based with French forces in Djibouti and in various of France's overseas territories.