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| Russia Mulls Buying Naval Ships From France, Spain, Netherlands | |
| 2010-05-25 | |
| Russia's defense minister says the country plans to buy four advanced warships from France, and is also in talks with Spain and the Netherlands about purchasing such vessels. Anatoly Serdyukov said Monday that Russia wants to buy one ship, and jointly build three others in deals with the NATO countries. Russian President Dimitri Medvedev said he supports the deal. Serdyukov said the ships would probably come into service in Russia's Northern and Pacific fleets. The French Defense Ministry announced a deal earlier this year to sell the Russian Navy a Mistral-class ship, a large amphibious assault vessel. The ships can carry dozens of armored vehicles, along with 16 attack helicopters. Russia's possible purchase of a French warship has unnerved Georgia, which fought a brief war with Russia in 2008. Other former Soviet republics are said to feel that the warship deal would strengthen Russia's ability to intervene in its neighbors' affairs. A Russian naval commander has said, if Russia had a Mistral-class ship in the Black Sea during its war with Georgia, it could have moved military equipment to the fighting zone in just minutes instead of hours.
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #3 It's not like their 'refurbishment' of the ships for India indicted some shortcomings and flaws in their own shipbuilding capacity. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-05-25 08:32 |
| #2 PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > REPORT: SHANGHAI DEFENCE BLOC [SCO/SCO-CSTO]WON'T ACCEPT IRAN AS A MEMBER.SCO does not want prospective Member-Nation(s) to be subject to any type of UN-Internat Sanctions. versus * SAME > INDIA, PAKISTAN MAY BE ADMITTED INTO SCO. They're NOT Iran. ------------ * SAME > INDONESIA AS GOOD AS BRIC STATES | INDONESIA HOWS GREECE THERES LIFE AFTER AUSTERITY IN BRIC BID. JAKARTA = INDONESIA is THIRD IN "BEST PERFORMING ECONOMY" after BRIC Member-States CHINA + INDJUH [India], BUT IS AHEAD of remaining BRIC Member-States BRAZIL + RUSSIA. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-05-25 01:08 |
| #1 Meanwhile, Citizens, back in the BatCave below stately WAYNE MANOR, To wit, ION WMF > CHINA OFFCIALLY ORDERS CONSTRUCTION OF TWO 60,000-TONNE AIRCRAFT CARRIERS { "Hi-Low" Mix of Training Carrier, Oil-powered, + Nuke-powered Super-Carrier CV's for the PLAN]. * SAME > EXPERTS: 2.8MILYUHN-MAN PLA CAN EASILY DEFEAT/BEAT 1.0MILYUHN RUSSIANS POST-USSR RUSSIA LOST THE COLD WAR TO NATO + CHINA'S CONVENTIONAL NUMERICAL ADVANTAGE [i.e. Mil Manpower], + MAY LOSE THE "WARM WAR" TO CHINA'S RAPID ECON GROWTH. * BHARAT RAKSHAK > CHINA BUILDING UP ITS AMPHIBIOUS FORCES. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-05-25 00:25 |