First Egyptian Navy Mistral Class LHD Sailed Out to Sea for Initial Crew Formation

Navy Recognition ^ | 07 May 2016

[sukhoi-30mki]

[sukhoi-30mki]

Mother of all ironies: 60 years after Gamal Abdel Nasser’s Egypt was invaded by the French (along with the Israelis and British), the French are selling a ship to Egypt that will be called Gamal Abdel Nasser!

[Fai Mao]

Can these ships operate VSTOL aircraft?

[Lower Deck]

Probably not. The only country making them is the U.S. with the F-35B and the deck would need to be built out to handle the heat and stress. I doubt it was.

[BroJoeK]

This is not the first time in history Egyptians have gone for supersized naval Warcraft:

[BroJoeK]

ooops. Warcraft = warships

[DaveA37]

“Picture taken on 06/05/2016.”.......

As I read that the picture will be TAKEN next month, June 5th, 2016.

[Spktyr]

Yes, if they can find some; not a lot of countries making VSTOL fighters or attack aircraft. That said, there's a lot of surplus Harriers running around on the world market now from Britain's short-sighted fire sale of their military gear.

On the other hand, they *can* operate some pretty nasty Russian helicopter gunships from them... and since Egypt got the amphibious assault carriers that Russia was going to put their Ka-52K scout/gunships on, Russia has sold Egypt the Ka-52Ks that Russia was going to put on the Mistrals. An additional 46 or so Ka-52 land-based variants have been ordered to go along with them.

[Spktyr]

Europeans and much of the rest of the world do dates in Day/Month/Year as opposed to our Month/Day/Year format.

[Fai Mao]

That is a wicked looking helicopter

[existentially_kuffer]

While, ISO conforming countries use year/month/day.

[Spktyr]

Since it has no tail rotor, it’s very fast for a chopper - and surprisingly quiet indeed.

Here’s the first known public footage of the Ka-52 in action from just last month in Syria. The Ka-52 is using free-flight unguided rockets (a standard attack heli munition) to attack targets on the ground.

[Spktyr]

Ooops, forgot the link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oixIcGRG0U

[Fai Mao]

Thanks.

That was fun

[Fai Mao]

Incidentally

http://www.gripenblogs.com/Lists/Tags/Tag.aspx?TagId=25&Name=Sea+Gripen

An inexpensive VSTOL

[Dustoff45]

picture will be TAKEN next month, June 5th, 2016

This is when military format works better - 6May2016

[Spktyr]

That’s still under development. They’re asking India to come help pay to develop and build it. It is not available for purchase yet.

It’s also STOL, not VTOL.

[DesertRhino]

It also has ejection seats.

[Spktyr]

Among lots of other interesting features, yeah. It’s also the first Russian chopper to have network warfare capabilities out of the box instead of having to have it retrofitted.

[PGalt]

Interesting. Thanks to all posters. BTTT