{"id":191283,"date":"2009-09-06T06:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-06T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/06\/russia-looks-to-buy-french-amphibious-assault-ship\/"},"modified":"2009-09-06T06:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-06T11:52:00","slug":"russia-looks-to-buy-french-amphibious-assault-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/06\/russia-looks-to-buy-french-amphibious-assault-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Looks to Buy French Amphibious Assault Ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img269.imageshack.us\/img269\/8696\/mistralmg61024957505.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"390\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img269.imageshack.us\/img269\/8140\/amphibiouswarfareshipfn.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" \/>The Russians are looking at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/news\/article\/August-2009\/russia-plans-purchase-of-french-warship.html?wh=news\">buying a Mistral Class amphibious assault ship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s roughly equivalent to the Tarawa class of LHA, it&#8217;s a through-deck helicopter carrier with a well deck, and the possibility of carrying some STOVL aircraft, and can carry, and act as a command center for, amphibious assaults.<\/p>\n<p>This is a capability that was never really the focus of the Russian navy, nor of the Soviet navy before it, which would explain why they want to purchase this capability from a 3<sup>rd<\/sup> country.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not entirely sure why they feel that they need this capability though.  The only 2 applications that I see are in multinational peace-keeping operations, and for invading Georgia, though issues with both the Turks and the Ukrainians would make the latter application difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russians are looking at buying a Mistral Class amphibious assault ship. It&#8217;s roughly equivalent to the Tarawa class of LHA, it&#8217;s a through-deck helicopter carrier with a well deck, and the possibility of carrying some STOVL aircraft, and can carry, and act as a command center for, amphibious assaults. This is a capability that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,984,1006,1161,1033],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-europe","category-military","category-naval","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}