Back ميسترال (حاملة مروحيات) Arabic Універсальныя дэсантныя караблі тыпу «Містраль» Byelorussian Třída Mistral Czech «Мистраль» тĕслĕ универсаллă десант карапĕсем CV Mistral-klassen Danish Mistral-Klasse German Κλάση Μιστράλ Greek Clase Mistral Spanish Mistral-luokka Finnish Classe Mistral French
 BPC Dixmude in Jounieh Bay, Lebanon 2012.
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| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Mistral class |
| Builders | |
| Operators | |
| Preceded by | Foudre class |
| Cost | €451.6 million (2012)[2] (equivalent to €512.9 million in 2022)[3] |
| In commission | December 2005 – present |
| Planned | 5 |
| Completed | 5 |
| Active | 5 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Landing helicopter dock |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 199 m (652 ft 11 in) |
| Beam | 32 m (105 ft 0 in) |
| Draught | 6.3 m (20 ft 8 in) |
| Installed power | 3 Wärtsilä diesel-alternators 16 V32 (6.2 MW) + 1 Wärtsilä Vasa auxiliary diesel-alternator 18V200 (3 MW) |
| Propulsion | 2 Rolls-Royce Mermaid azimuth thrusters (2 × 7 MW), 2 five-bladed propellers |
| Speed | 18.8 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) |
| Range |
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| Boats & landing craft carried |
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| Capacity | 70 vehicles (including 13 Leclerc tank) or a 40-strong Leclerc tank battalion |
| Troops | 450 troops (or 250 troops plus a military staff of 200 men) |
| Complement | 20 officers, 80 petty officers, 60 quarter-masters |
| Sensors & processing systems |
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| Armament |
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| Aircraft carried | 16 heavy or 35 light helicopters |
| Aviation facilities | 6 helicopter landing spots |
The Mistral class is a class of five landing helicopter docks 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) and "porte-hélicoptères amphibie" (PHA) since 2019, 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-strong Leclerc tank battalion,[5] and 450 soldiers. The ships are equipped with a 69-bed hospital, and are capable of serving as part of a NATO Response Force, or with United Nations or European Union peace-keeping forces.
Three ships of the class are in service in the French Navy: Mistral, Tonnerre, and Dixmude. A deal for two ships for the Russian Navy was announced by then French President Nicolas Sarkozy on 24 December 2010, and signed on 25 January 2011. On 3 September 2014, French President François Hollande announced the postponement of delivery of the first warship, Vladivostok, in response to the Russia–Ukraine crisis.[6][7] On 5 August 2015, President Hollande and Russian president Vladimir Putin announced that France would refund payments and keep the two ships; the two ships were sold to Egypt within one month.[8]
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- ^ "Projet de loi de finances pour 2013 : Défense : équipement des forces" (in French). Senate of France. 22 November 2012. Retrieved 26 September 2014. Dixmude cost France €451.6m at FY2012 prices
- ^ 1262 to 1789 Leonardo Ridolfi, The French economy in the longue durée: a study on real wages, working days and economic performance from Louis IX to the Revolution (1250–1789), Ridolfi, L. (2019). Six Centuries of Real Wages in France from Louis IX to Napoleon III: 1250–1860. The Journal of Economic History, 79(3), 589-627. 1798 to 1809: Mitchell, B. R. (Brian R.). (1975). European historical statistics, 1750-1970. New York: Columbia University Press, 1810 to 1903: Sauvy, Alfred. Variations des prix de 1810 à nos jours. Journal de la société française de statistique, Volume 93 (1952) , pp. 88-104 1904 to 2022: Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Coefficient de transformation de l'euro ou du franc d'une année, en euro ou en franc d'une autre année – Base 2015 – Série utilisée par le convertisseur franc-euro – Identifiant 010605954
- ^ "Nexter presenting NARWHAL®, its remotely operated 20mm gun turret, at the Euronaval 2016 trade show between 17 and 21 October". nexter-group.fr. Archived from the original on 31 July 2017. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
- ^ "BPC Mistral". netmarine.net. Archived from the original on 2 January 2012. Retrieved 30 December 2011.
- ^ de la Baume, Maïa; Gladstone, Rick (3 September 2014). "France Postpones Delivery of Warship to Russia". The New York Times Company.
- ^ "Ukraine crisis: France halts warship delivery to Russia". BBC. 3 September 2014.
- ^ "France Says Egypt To Buy Mistral Warships". Defense News. Agence France-Presse. 23 September 2015. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
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