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French and Egyptian Mistral Class Amphibious Assault Ships FS Mistral (L9013) and ENS Gamal Abdel Nasser (L1010)...2019.
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Egyptian Navy,Aquitaine Class Multi-purpose FREMM Stealth Frigate ENS Tahya Misr....2019.
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Egyptian Navy,Ambassador MKIII or Ezzat Class Guided Missile Patrol Boat,ENS Soliman Ezzat,bulit by V T Halter Marine,the American subsidiary of ST Engineering. It is located in Pascagoula, Mississippi. It specializes in ship design, construction, and repair, and serves both public and private clients, including the United States Department of Defense....Arabian Sea,February 12th 2019.
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Let us not forget the pride of the Egyptian Fleet: the 2 French/Russian built helo carriers. BTW, Egypt needs them.......why? DFO
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designeraccd wrote: Fri Aug 09, 2019 9:50 pm Let us not forget the pride of the Egyptian Fleet: the 2 French/Russian built helo carriers. BTW, Egypt needs them.......why? DFO
Although a little dated this article kinda sums up a lot of swerves enroute to the time when Tsar Vlad becomes their eventual user.

Why Is Egypt Buying Two Orphaned Mistral Class Aircraft Carriers From France?
Tyler Rogoway
9/23/15 5:00pmFiled to: Mistral Class Saga

The Russian-French Mistral Class helicopter carrier saga has been a long and rocky one. Originally the two amphibious assault ships were built for Russia, with many Russian combat systems installed, but France denied delivery after Russia seized Crimea a year and a half ago. Since then, many potential customers have been identified for the ships, but Egypt appears to be where these powerful ships will call home in the not so distant future.

The Mistral Class are pretty amazing ships. Not because they offer any sort of new capabilities that other amphibious flattops don’t, but because they offer a lot of capability for their price, costing around $700 million each. They also have much lower their operating costs when compared with say an American Wasp Class LHD, which only enhances their reputation for value.

With this in mind, many navies around the globe looked at buying the orphaned ships, many of which are not known for carrier operations or for large navies for that matter. Canada, NATO, Brazil, India, Vietnam, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore and even China and the U.S. have been floated or rumored as potential buyers. In the end it appears that France has brokered a deal with Egypt for both the ships.

France has become a more heavily favored nation for Egyptian trade and arms deals in recent years as it has been in the past. The el-Sisi government has pivoted away from the U.S. as its main strategic partner in the region as the Obama Administration has greatly chilled the Egypt-U.S. relationship because of the military backed el-Sisi coup that seized power from the democratically elected Muslim Brotherhood. As a result, F-16 and other arms deliveries were temporarily embargoed to Egypt, which among other things, disrupted the once strong relationship between the two countries. In Washington’s absence, Egypt has turned to France and Russia for arms sales, with major orders being penned worth billions of dollars for Dassault Rafale and MiG-29 fighters recently.

continue to read article - here ... (an equally interesting piece dated 8/31/14 titled Why These Powerful French Assault Ships Might End Up In Putin's Hands is linked within this article).
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Egyptian Navy,Gowind Class Corvette ENS El Fateh seen departing Piraeus,November 4th 2019.
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Little h wrote: Fri Aug 09, 2019 11:05 pm
designeraccd wrote: Fri Aug 09, 2019 9:50 pm Let us not forget the pride of the Egyptian Fleet: the 2 French/Russian built helo carriers. BTW, Egypt needs them.......why? DFO
Although a little dated this article kinda sums up a lot of swerves enroute to the time when Tsar Vlad becomes their eventual user.

Why Is Egypt Buying Two Orphaned Mistral Class Aircraft Carriers From France?
Tyler Rogoway
9/23/15 5:00pmFiled to: Mistral Class Saga
There are a few problems with that article - most of which have only become apparent in the last couple of years (not surprising, as it was published over 4 years ago).

1. Saudi Arabia loaned/gave the purchase funds to Egypt (and therefore are part-owners) - and they are NOT friendly towards the Russians - so they would use their considerable influence to prevent Egypt from compromising the "Arab Community" access to these ships.

2. China has no need for these ships - see the Type 075 LHD thread in the Chinese section.

3. Russia is having difficulties even keeping its existing fleet operational - with ships going out of service without replacement with some frequency (see Kuznetsov), so I can't see them building major warships like this without first addressing the deficiencies in the core fleet warship types.
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Egyptian Gowind Class Guided Missile Corvette ENS El Fateh pictured in transit through the Bosphorus,enroute to Black Sea joint Naval exercises with Russia,November 15th 2020.
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Egypt has acquired the Italian FREMM Multipurpose Carlo Bergamini Class Frigate ITS Emilio Bianchi..renamed ENS Bernees, pictured as she departs for her homeport of Alexandria in April 2021.
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Egyptian Navy, Mistral Class Amphibious Assault Ship ENS Gamal Abdel Nasser pictured at Alexandria...2022.
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