Helicopter Carrier Classes: Hy Ga Class Helicopter Destroyers, Iwo Jima Class Amphibious Assault Ships, Mistral Class Landing Platform Docks

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 45. Chapters: Hy ga class helicopter destroyers, Iwo Jima class amphibious assault ships, Mistral class landing platform docks, Moskva class helicopter carriers, Tarawa class amphibious assault ships, Wasp class amphibious assault ships, USS Peleliu, Mistral class amphibious assault ship, USS Tripoli, HMS Ocean, USS Kearsarge, USS Iwo Jima, USS Tarawa, USS Bonhomme Richard, USS New Orleans, USS Wasp, USS Belleau Wood, USS Essex, USS Nassau, USS Bataan, USS Saipan, USS Makin Island, Dokdo class amphibious assault ship, USS Boxer, USS Guam, USS Inchon, USS Okinawa, USS Guadalcanal, French ship Mistral, Soviet helicopter carrier Moskva, French ship Tonnerre, PH 75, Soviet helicopter carrier Leningrad. Excerpt: The Mistral class is a class of three amphibious assault ships, also known as a helicopter carrier, of the French Navy. Referred to as projection and command ships (batiments de projection et de commandement or BPC), a Mistral class ship is capable of transporting and deploying 16 NH90 or Tiger helicopters, four landing barges, up to 70 vehicles including 13 Leclerc tanks, or a 40-strong Leclerc tank battalion, 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. Two ships of the class are in service in the French Navy: Mistral and Tonnerre. The work on a third vessel, Dixmude, was launched in April 2009 and a fourth ship may also be built. A deal for 2 ships (+ 2 options) for the Russian Navy was announced by French President Nicolas Sarkozy on 24 December 2010, and signed by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin and French Defence Minister Alain Juppe in the presence of Sarkozy on 25 January 2011. In 1997, the DCN started a study for a multipurpose intervention ship (batiment d'interve...