{"id":48,"date":"2015-06-23T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T09:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=48"},"modified":"2015-09-21T13:35:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T13:35:00","slug":"french-shipyards-transferred-technology-to-russia-for-the-construction-of-mistral-class-vessels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2015\/06\/23\/french-shipyards-transferred-technology-to-russia-for-the-construction-of-mistral-class-vessels\/","title":{"rendered":"FRENCH SHIPYARDS TRANSFERRED TECHNOLOGY TO RUSSIA FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF MISTRAL-CLASS VESSELS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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France has transferred advanced technology to Russian shipyards, according to the Russian News Agency, Ria Novosti. The report claims that this transfer took place before the Mistral-class Landing Helicopter Dock programme was stopped due of Western sanctions against Russia.<\/p>\n

The Mistral-class Franco-Russian deal was signed on 17 June 2011 with the Russian Navy ordering two French-designed Mistral-class vessels for 1.7 billion dollars. The deal also provided for the construction of the first vessel’s parts to be done at the Russian Baltiysky Zavod shipyard in St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n

According to Ria Novosti, Alexei Diky, the director of military-industrial cooperation at Russia’s state-owned United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) said that three types of technology were transferred from French to Russian shipyards.<\/p>\n

Diky reports that the first type of technology allowed the Russians to conduct their own \u201clarge-block assembly\u201d, used in the construction of the Mistrals –\u00a0most particularly, the aft section of the first of the Mistral-class Landing Helicopter Docks was built at USC Baltic Shipyard in St. Petersburg based on the blueprints that the French shipyard shared with the Russian engineering centre at Admiralty Shipyards.<\/p>\n

According to Russian General Staff, General Nikolai Makarov, the main reason for the procurement of the two French-designed Mistral-class Landing Helicopter Dock, instead of building similar Russian designed vessels, is that Russia would require another 10 years to develop the necessary technologies to accomplish such task.<\/p>\n

According to defence analysts the technological capacity obtained is very valuable for the future shipbuilding plans of the Russians. Construction of the aft section of a Mistral-class Landing Helicopter Dock could enable Russia to independently construct its own Mistral-type military vessels in the future; or even larger vessels like the new 330 meter long aircraft carrier that currently is under development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

France has transferred advanced technology to Russian shipyards, according to the Russian News Agency, Ria Novosti. The report claims that this transfer took place before the Mistral-class Landing Helicopter Dock programme was stopped due of Western sanctions against Russia. The Mistral-class Franco-Russian deal was signed on 17 June 2011 with the Russian Navy ordering two… Continue reading FRENCH SHIPYARDS TRANSFERRED TECHNOLOGY TO RUSSIA FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF MISTRAL-CLASS VESSELS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-industry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}