Egyptian ship Gamal Abdel Nasser

ENS Gamal Abdel Nasser heading to Alexandria after a joint naval exercise with the French Navy, October 2016
Russia
Name:	Vladivostok
Ordered:	June 2011
Builder:	STX France Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard, Saint-Nazaire, France United Shipbuilding Corporation Baltiysky Zavod shipyard, St. Petersburg, Russia
Laid down:	1 February 2012
Launched:	15 October 2013
Status:	Sea trials completed, contract cancelled
Egypt
Name:	Gamal Abdel Nasser
Namesake:	Gamal Abdel Nasser
Acquired:	23 September 2015
Commissioned:	2 June 2016
Homeport:	Safaga, Egypt
Identification:	L1010
Status:	In service
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General characteristics
Class and type:	Mistral-class amphibious assault ship
Displacement:	16,500 tonnes (empty) 21,300 tonnes (full load) 32,300 tonnes (with ballasts)
Length:	200 m (660 ft)
Beam:	32 m (105 ft)
Draught:	6.3 m (21 ft)
Installed power:	3 × Wärtsilä 16V32 (3 × 6,200 kW (8,300 hp))
Speed:	18.8 knots (34.8 km/h; 21.6 mph)
Range:	10,800 km (5,800 nmi) at 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) 19,800 kilometres (10,700 nmi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Armament:	Former Russian armament: 2 × 3M-47 Ghibka surface-to-air missile turret 2 × 30 mm AK-630 4 × DP-65 antisaboteur grenade launchers
Aircraft carried:	The Egyptian Navy and Air Force are studying several offers for helicopters to use on both carriers. Former Russian aircraft: 8 × Kamov Ka-52K attack helicopters (Naval version of Ka-52 which is under construction) 4 × Kamov Ka-29TB transport helicopters 4 × Kamov Ka-27P ASW helicopters.
Aviation facilities:	Helicopter deck and hangar

ENS Gamal Abdel Nasser (L1010) is an Egyptian Navy amphibious assault ship, a type of helicopter carrier, of the French-designed Mistral class. It was originally built for the Russian Navy and underwent sea trials. Subsequently the contract was cancelled by France and agreement on compensation reached with the Russian government. Egypt and France concluded the deal to acquire the two former Russian Mistral for roughly 950 million euros. Egypt is considered the first and only country in Africa and the Middle East to possess an aircraft carrier of such type.

The Russian government placed an order for the ship in 2011. The construction of the ship would be shared between the countries with France building about 60 percent and Russia 40. Work started in France, in Saint-Nazaire, on 1 February 2012 and in the Russian Baltiysky Zavod shipyard in St. Petersburg in October 2012. Russia would send its parts to France for final assembly. The ship was expected to join the Russian Navy in 2015. The ship was launched on 15 October 2013. The ship began its first sea trials on 5 March 2014.

Savings in construction costs were anticipated, due to the use of commercial off the shelf (COTS) parts, rather than requiring every system to be designed to military standards.

The Russian acquisition of French Mistral-class amphibious assault ships is considered to be the largest defense deal between Russia and the West since World War II.

The 2014 Russian military intervention in Ukraine triggered rising international criticism. France was under political pressure from other nations to sanction Russia by cancelling or suspending delivery of the two Mistral-class vessels.

On 3 September 2014, French President François Hollande released an announcement that France was suspending the delivery of Vladivostok to Russia due to the ongoing War in Donbass, Ukraine.