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Sunday, June 08, 2014

Why Is France Building Warships For Russia?

Vladivostok LHDFrance has really done it this time — the country is apparently going ahead with a plan to sell Russia two Mistral-class amphibious assault ships, a move which is understandably none too popular with NATO and its member states, who understandably wonder if this is the best time for NATO to be arming Russia.

Or to paraphrase Vladimir Lenin, NATO wonders whether it's selling Russia the rope with which Russia will hang it.

The Mistral is a modern, advanced amphibious assault ship capable of carrying up to 900 troops, a tank battalion, and 16 to 35 helicopters. While not the largest amphibious-support ships out there, they're still very serious ships that could play an important role in a very serious amphibious force.

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