1 diesel generator Wärtsilä 18V200 (3.3 MW),
2 Alstom Mermaid thrusters (7 MW)
18 knots (cruising)
10,700 miles (19,800 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h)
4 × 12.7 mm Browning machine guns; "3M47" Bending
Ships of this type are capable of performing four tasks: landing motorized military units on land, receiving and servicing combat helicopters, being a command center and a floating hospital [ ] . The ship can simultaneously accommodate: 16 multi-purpose NHI NH90 class helicopters or Eurocopter Tiger class attack helicopters; 4 landing barges; up to 70 combat vehicles, including 13 main tanks of the AMX-56 Leclerc type or a tank battalion, including 40 Leclerc tanks and 450 soldiers (shortly up to 900 people). A hangar with an area of 1800 m² is provided for helicopters.
Three ships of this type, "Mistral"(French Mistral L9013), "Tonner"(French Tonnerre L9014) and "Dismude"(French Dixmude L9015) are in service with the French Navy.
The contract for the construction and delivery of two Mistral-class ships for the Russian Navy was signed in June 2011 and terminated in May 2015. In September 2015, Egypt agreed with France to purchase these two Mistrals. On October 10, a purchase contract was signed.
Design
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Implementation of the contract
The height of the hangar allows Russian helicopters Ka-27, Ka-29 and Ka-52K to be placed on the hangar deck, which was confirmed during the visit of the Mistral UDC to St. Petersburg when performing test landings of helicopters on the deck. However, the opening in the elevator area is not high enough for the Ka-29 and has been enlarged. To use helicopter carriers in northern latitudes, in ice, it was necessary to strengthen the sides of the ship (however, this did not entail serious changes in the design and technical equipment of the Mistral). Russia bought the Mistral helicopter carrier with all navigation and technological equipment, including combat navigation, but the weapons and helicopters on the ship were Russian. The agreement was signed by Igor Sechin and Alain Juppé on January 25, 2011 in Saint-Nazaire. The protocol of intent was signed on June 10, 2011 in Paris, the signing of the final contract took place within the framework of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on June 17, 2011.
Two amphibious helicopter-dock ships (DVDC) "Mistral", built in French shipyards for the Russian Navy, were planned to be transferred to the Pacific Fleet. To achieve this, the infrastructure of military camps and garrisons of the Eastern Military District was significantly modernized, which required the allocation of significant funds. Special attention it was planned to devote to formations stationed on the islands of the Kuril ridge.
All systems and devices on board the ship were Russified. The Mistral was equipped with Russian and French control and communications equipment, the compatibility of which was to be ensured by DCNS. In addition, the ship being built in Saint-Nazaire received Russian systems fire control.
On February 16, 2012, Commander-in-Chief of the Navy Vladimir Vysotsky announced that the French Mistral helicopter carriers being built for the Russian Navy would receive the main weapons Russian production.
| We're going to put missile systems for self-defense, to increase protection by air defense systems. We will strengthen the use of the helicopter component in terms of performing anti-submarine missions. The Mistrals, which are being built for the Russian Navy, can accommodate weapons with a special Russian-designed warhead. |
According to DCNS, it was planned to install on the Mistral for Russia artillery installations AK-630 caliber 30 millimeters in the front part on the starboard side and in the rear part of the ship on the left side (in some sources the AK-306 is indicated as the ZAU). The 3M47 “Gibka” anti-aircraft missile launchers were located in front on the starboard side, and in the rear on the left side. DCNS prepared sites for the installation of weapons, while they themselves combat systems it was planned to mount it in Russia.
The Thales MRR-3D NG radar operating in the G-wave band was used as the main surveillance radar of the SENIT system on the Russian Mistral. Similar radars are installed on three Mistral-class helicopter carriers of the French Navy.
On September 28, 2012, it became known that the French company SAGEM received a subcontract from DCNS Corporation. According to the terms of the contract, Sagem produced the Vampir NG optronic search and sighting systems. The Vampir NG ultra-long-range infrared search and tracking system provides surface combatants with passive all-round panoramic surveillance of the surface situation, automatic detection, tracking and information about threats various types, from anti-ship missiles with a flat flight path over water to attacking high-speed ships.
The Vampir NG system has two operating modes:
| “Delivery of the first system for installation on board the first ship will be carried out in 2013, the second - in another six months. Now our specialists have begun manufacturing the “Russian” order,” noted a representative of Sagem. On March 5, 2014, the French shipbuilding company began sea trials of a warship built for Russia. The first ship of the series for the Russian Federation was named Vladivostok. |
Some press reports about Russian Mistrals sometimes give performance characteristics of this project that are slightly different from the French version. For example:
- The total length of the hull of the Mistral type ship: 199 m.
- Width: 32 m.
- Side height at flight deck level: 27 m.
- Draft: 6.42 m (with a displacement of 22600 tons).
- Maximum speed: 18.5 knots (at a draft of 6.42 m and 100% (2×3.5 MW) power on the rudder propellers).
- Crew: 177 people.
- Number of passengers: 481 people.
At the request of the Russian side, a number of changes were made compared to the French project:
Instead of the outdated French satellite communication system Syracuse At Vladivostok, it was planned to install, in addition to the traditional HF and VHF communications receivers and transmitters for the Russian Navy, the R-794-1 product, which is part of the modernized Centaurus satellite communications system. This system provides data exchange between ships and with the coast station at a speed of 512 kbit/s.
For the first Russian DVKD of this class - "Vladivostok" - 4 CTM NG (Chaland de Transported Materiel de Nouvelle Generation) boats were to be built in France by October 2014. Unlike their predecessors (CTM), boats of the CTM NG type have a length of 27 m and a width of 7 m, and are also equipped with two ramps for landing troops - bow and stern, which gives them more ample opportunities on maneuvering. Boats of the CTM NG type are better adapted to operate in conditions of strong rolling, and their speed is up to 20 knots (2 times more than the CTM).
In 2013, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin noted that Russia does not produce fuel for engines [ which ones?] installed on Mistral-class helicopter carriers, so chemists will have to look for a special solution.
On February 19, 2014, French specialists began training the Vladivostok crew in St. Petersburg. The arrival of Russian sailors for training in the management and maintenance of DVKD to the French port of Saint-Nazaire was scheduled for June 1, 2014. According to a report dated May 6, 2014, a group of Russian officers arrived in Saint-Nazaire a month before the UDC Vladivostok and Sevastopol crews of 400 sailors arrived here. Both crews were in France during the summer and planned to make the passage on the first ship Vladivostok from Saint-Nazaire to Kronstadt.
On September 15, 2014, the Vladivostok with a Russian crew went to sea for sea trials.
In November 2014, it was reported that high-tech equipment was stolen from the Vladivostok ship moored in the port of Saint-Nazaire by unknown persons.
Supply problems
On September 3, 2014, France warned of a possible suspension of the delivery of the first Mistral-class helicopter carrier, Vladivostok, to Russia. Russia's actions in the conflict in eastern Ukraine are cited as the reason. The French presidential administration said in a statement:
The President of the Republic came to the conclusion that, despite the prospect of a ceasefire [in eastern Ukraine] - which has not yet been approved and is not in effect - there are no conditions under which France can authorize the delivery of the first helicopter carrier.
Original text (English)
The president of the republic has concluded that despite the prospect of ceasefire, which has yet to be confirmed and put in place, the conditions under which France could authorize the delivery of the first helicopter carrier are not in place
The transfer ceremony of Vladivostok, scheduled for November 14, did not take place. Hollande announced that the transfer was being postponed, and he would make the decision to supply Mistral-class helicopter carriers to Russia without any external pressure.
On November 25, Hollande decided to suspend until further notice the transfer of the first helicopter carrier to Russia due to the situation in Ukraine, and in December the French Minister of Defense stated that “if necessary conditions If it doesn’t work out, we will never deliver these ships to Russia.”
The Russian side stated that in case of non-delivery it will sue and may demand a penalty of up to 3 billion euros.
In France, there were fears that the Vladivostok crew undergoing training could take possession of the ship and hijack it to Russia.
It was reported that France is looking for a new buyer for the Sevastopol ship among the United States, the European Union, Brazil and other countries.
On December 18, due to difficulties with the transfer of the ship, the Russian crew on the training ship Smolny departed from Saint-Nazaire.
On December 19, Hollande explained that deliveries of helicopter carriers were suspended due to the lack of necessary progress in implementing the Minsk agreements on the part of Moscow. In response, the deputy of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security, Yevgeny Serebrennikov, said that Moscow could completely stop purchasing military equipment in all NATO countries. He noted that such plans have already been announced by the Russian Ministry of Defense. The senator suggested that the rejection of foreign military products will stimulate
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16:07 21.09.2016
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13:50 26.06.2016
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10:36 22.06.2016
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15:51 12.06.2016
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15:35 12.06.2016
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14:15 02.06.2016
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12:40 20.04.2016
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10:23 29.02.2016
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09:34 29.02.2016
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20:13 09.02.2016
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07:45 17.01.2016
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06:33 13.01.2016
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16:04 30.12.2015
Rogozin showed the benefits of a weak ruble using the example of MistralsDeputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, in charge of Russian government The military-industrial complex said that Russia, after breaking the contract with France for the supply of Mistral helicopter carriers, returned compensation three times more than it paid for their construction. Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said that Russia only benefited from the termination of the contract with France for the supply of Mistral-class landing ships, Interfax reports. According to him, even despite the fact that Moscow, due to disagreements with Paris over the Ukrainian crisis, never received
This is a very old sport. It began with an argument about whether Russia needs aircraft carriers at all? Then they argued whether we needed these Mistral helicopter carriers. It was a very expensive contract and an unusually functional ship for our fleet. Remember how the construction of the Vladivostok UDC of the Mistral type was successful.
However, during the construction process, most of the arguments were that we needed such a ship specifically for our configuration and ice class. At that moment, our shipbuilders were almost 100% loaded with military and civilian orders and did not have all the technologies (although parts of the hulls were built at Russian shipyards) for the construction of such ships.
Soon after the annexation of Crimea to Russia, well-known problems began. Until recently, I believe, everyone believed that France and in particular business circles would not dare to disrupt such a large international order for the sake of political talk. After all, they warned that money is nonsense compared to reputation and precedent. However, as we know France dependent country and she is not simply given independent politics. The decision was made not in favor of Russia and not in favor of France. And this is what this peculiar “black mark” led to the shipbuilding company STX France from Saint-Nazaire...
After the failure of the contract for the supply of Mistral landing ships to Russia, the STX France company from Saint-Nazaire (France) was predicted to serious problems. Complications were associated with difficulties in selling ice-class ships and narrow specialization for Russian-made equipment. The company suddenly “sharply and unexpectedly” began to experience serious financial problems.
While the company's management was still able to sell these ships at cost, they were not able to restore their reputation. After failing to fulfill the contract before Russia, the company received a bad reputation as an unreliable partner. This was the reason that other customers sharply reduced contacts with STX France.
As a result, the French shipyard fell into a protracted recession, wage debts accumulated, which brought the company to the brink of bankruptcy. The solution was found in the sale of the company. However, after the auction was announced, it turned out that such “toxic assets”, spoiled by scandals with the Russian Federation, do not arouse much interest among investors.
On this moment Only one company submitted a real bid to purchase STX France. The shipyard's management, however, said that if the transaction price was too low, the auction could be cancelled. The current state of affairs is clear evidence that the failure to fulfill the Russian contract has actually brought the French shipbuilding company to the brink of survival....
And what does Russia have as a result? Russia returned all the money spent on this project and received a large contract from Egypt for the supply of equipment and helicopters for the Mistrals sold to Egypt. The operation in Syria showed the correctness of calculations regarding the need for such ships for Russia, and having received documentation and experience in building hulls, Russian shipbuilders will now be able to build such ships themselves.
It is not for nothing that there have already been statements that Russia is developing analogues of the French Mistrals.
According to the head of the Russian Navy's Shipbuilding Department, Vladimir Tryapichnikov, this will be a large-displacement ocean landing ship that can transport a large number of military equipment and personnel. “Today, our military-industrial complex is quite capable of building landing ships of this class,” noted Tryapichnikov.
Earlier, Oleg Bochkarev, deputy chairman of the board of the Russian Military-Industrial Commission, stated that Russia plans to build Mistral-type helicopter carriers itself. However, he emphasized that these will not be exact copies of French helicopter carriers, but ships with a “different approach.”
Thanks to the Mistral Scam, Russia received the brains for NCUOG:
At the end of 2015, Egypt “unexpectedly” bought the ships.
Many experts immediately expressed bewilderment: why does this country need ships of this type, and even without weapons? (The final bringing of the Mistrals to combat readiness was to be carried out in Russia).
“Egyptian billionaire Nassef Onsi Sawiris, who allocated funds for the country’s purchase of French Mistral helicopter carriers and is actually their owner, decided to resell them to Russia for a symbolic price of $1. The issue of selling two ships to Russia has been agreed upon with the President of Egypt Abdul-Fattah Khalil El-Sisi,” reports the host of the Egyptian television channel SIS TV.
"This important step“, aimed at bringing the two countries - Egypt and Russia - closer together, strengthening their cooperation and great friendship,” notes the TV presenter.
It is possible that the entire deal for the purchase of Mistrals by Egypt was initially agreed upon (or organized by Moscow). It is also likely that even the money for the purchase of ships to Nassef Onsi Sawiris was sent from Russia. Simply by transferring part of the amount of €1.1 billion that the French returned to Russia after refusing to hand over the ships.
In short, the company was able to sell the Mistral a little above cost to Egypt, which will purchase deck equipment, equipment and train crews in Russia.
Russia received the money back and received a package of technologies as compensation (the welded technology that was used to create these ships was especially important for us).
France killed a good taxpayer, and the company itself (formed in the 19th century) was unable, after refusing to deliver ships to us, to collect orders to continue its activities and went bankrupt (there were no fools who would want to get involved with such unreliable partners).
The “invisible hand of the market” fired 4 thousand people; a single bid was registered for the auction for the sale of the company, in which a price was offered equal to 10% of the cost of one Mistral.
Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Navy for Armaments, Vice Admiral Viktor Bursuk, told reporters at the International Naval Show in St. Petersburg that the fleet plans to have two universal landing helicopter carrier ships in service by 2025.
It is worth recalling that about preparation terms of reference The Navy announced the development of landing ships that will surpass the well-known Mistrals in their capabilities last summer.
The Russian Navy today does not have a single universal landing helicopter carrier (UDC), although the need is obvious. Perhaps that is why at IMDS-2017 such attention was focused on the layout and conceptual design of the Priboy UDC at the exhibition stand of the Krylov State scientific center.
The purpose of the UDC is the transportation by sea and landing of troops and equipment on an unequipped coast during a naval landing operation(with the participation of combat support helicopters of the naval air group), as well as the installation of defensive minefields and net barriers, sonar buoys of the underwater surveillance system.
The ship is not easy.
In addition to a dozen helicopters, it has on board six assault boats and six landing boats with a carrying capacity of 45 tons each.
The anti-aircraft self-defense weapon includes four combat modules, including Pantsir-ME. Artillery is represented by a 76-mm universal mount.
UDC has an integrated system combat control tactical and operational-tactical units, as well as a three-dimensional radar, a navigation complex, an integrated electronic warfare subsystem and a system for detecting underwater sabotage forces and means.
© RIA Novosti / Alexander Khrolenko UDC “Priboy”
The conceptual design of the two-hundred-meter Priboy UDC with a cruising range of 6,000 miles looks quite convincing and harmonious. The history of its appearance is also interesting, which is connected not so much with the disruption of the delivery of French Mistrals, but with scientific and technical foresight Russian specialists and self-assertion of the domestic shipbuilding industry.
French accent
The decision to purchase Mistrals at the Krylov Center was met as a professional challenge, and yet a domestic UDC could have been designed here without French influence.
Valentin Belonenko, head of the advanced design department for warships at the Krylov Center, says: “When in 2005 there was talk about purchasing the French Mistrals, we clarified the purpose of the amphibious helicopter carrier and analyzed global shipbuilding trends.
And on their own initiative and for their own money, they began to create a project for a universal landing ship. Compared to the Mistrals, it was initially planned to create a ship with a larger capacity, a larger air group, and strong self-defense capabilities. We independently worked through project options, conducted model tests, and tested new concepts. This is how the conceptual design of the universal landing ship-helicopter carrier “Priboy” was born.
Any ship is a compromise between dozens of different parameters.
“Priboy” is designed to transport about 500 landing troops and military equipment (tanks and infantry fighting vehicles) with the possibility of the UDC going ashore. Combat support helicopters and landing helicopters must be present on board.
These features result in an almost aircraft-carrier-sized deck and architecture with two types of helicopter hangars (in the superstructure and in the hull below the deck).
With the help of crane beams, landing boats are taken not into the dock chamber, as is customary, but onto a dry dock deck located above the waterline. The absence of docking cameras ensures greater operational safety.
There are ramps at the stern and bow for receiving equipment from the shore and from the water, as well as side ramps. Self-defense weapons are minimal, but very effective: naval modifications of the well-known Tor and Pantsir systems. An amphibious helicopter carrier must operate in a group of ships, therefore it has developed radio-electronic and hydroacoustic weapons for illuminating the situation and controlling the situation.
© RIA Novosti / Alexander Khrolenko. UDC "Priboy"
The functions and required “working volume” - 50 infantry fighting vehicles and 10 tanks - determined the shape of the ship and displacement - about 23 thousand tons. The width of the dock deck (about 20 meters) and the space for power plants (in the side racks) add up to a total hull width of 34 meters at the waterline. The length of the hull is 200 meters.
Optimal timing
The Ministry of Defense approved the creation of a domestic amphibious helicopter carrier, and it is very likely that it will be created precisely on the basis of the Krylov Center project. Perhaps soon we will talk about a contract.
With the exception of Project 1174 “Rhinoceros” of the late 1960s, there have been no analogues in the Russian Navy, but today Russian shipbuilding has the scientific and technical potential, production base and experience to create ships of any complexity.
Valentin Belonenko reflects on the possibility of translating “Surf” into metal:
“After a decision at the state level, the ship can be built in five years. Rationally organized technological process design and construction significantly reduces the time before launching the hull. The ship should be built not from individual units, but from assembly and installation units - modules.”
« French history“Our shipbuilders and sailors today are reluctant to remember. The transport helicopter carrier "Mistral" is a serious piece of equipment, created taking into account the experience and traditions of national shipbuilding.
However, the French classify the Mistral as an amphibious command ship (bâtiment de projection et de commandement), that is, they see it as simultaneously a transport, a command center for the operation of heterogeneous forces, and even a hospital.
Perhaps, for one ship the functional load is excessive, since it reduces combat survivability. Let the Mistrals that did not become ours serve friendly Egypt. And Russian shipbuilders are determined to surpass the French project.
Alexander Khrolenko, columnist for MIA Rossiya Segodnya
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In the manufacture of floating parts of the hull of two landing helicopter dock ships of the Mistral type at the Baltic Shipyard (St. Petersburg), part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation.
The first Russian Mistral-class helicopter carrier, named Vladivostok, was on February 1, 2012.
A year later, assembly of the ship's bow began at the STX France shipyards in Saint-Nazaire.
In parallel, construction of the aft section was underway at the Baltic Shipyard in St. Petersburg, which at the end of July 2013 was where work continued.
On October 15, 2013, the hull of the Vladivostok ship was launched. After that, under the control of the French state-owned military shipbuilding company DCNS, the ship was retrofitted and tested in the docks and at sea.
The first amphibious helicopter carrier of the Mistral type, the ship Vladivostok, according to the invitation sent to the Russian side, was supposed to be transferred by France to the Russian Navy, but the transfer did not take place.
The United States actively opposes the transfer of ships. Paris, on the one hand, stated that it was obliged to fulfill the contract with Russia, and on the other, linked the transfer of ships with progress in resolving the situation in Ukraine.
Even in the event of a serious contract failure negative consequences for the Russian Federation is not expected: France will have to pay a large penalty, and Russia will be able to build its own analogue of the Mistral on its own.
The contract specifies the amount of the penalty; it will be determined depending on the circumstances. The figure varies from 3 billion to 10 billion euros.
French President Francois Hollande decided to suspend the delivery of the first Mistral-class helicopter carrier to Russia due to the situation in Ukraine.
Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Yuri Borisov that Russia will not yet make claims against France due to the decision to suspend the supply of the Mistral to the Russian Federation. According to him, everything is spelled out in the contract, Russia will act in accordance with the letter of the contract.
The material was prepared based on information from RIA Novosti and open sources