Russian ship Vladivostok (2013)
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ENS Gamal Abdel Nasser heading to Alexandria after a joint naval exercise with the French Navy, October 2016
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 Russia
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| Name: | Vladivostok |
| Ordered: | June 2011 |
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| Laid down: | 1 February 2012 |
| Launched: | 15 October 2013 |
| Status: | Sea trials completed, Contract cancelled |
 Egypt
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| Name: | Gamal Abdel Nasser |
| Namesake: | Gamal Abdel Nasser |
| Acquired: | 23 September 2015 |
| Commissioned: | 2 June 2016 |
| Homeport: | Safaga, Egypt |
| Identification: | L1010 |
| Status: | In service |
| Badge: |  |
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| Class and type: | Mistral-class amphibious assault ship |
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| 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) |
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| Armament: | 4 × AN/TWQ-1 Avenger mobile SAM (32 FIM-92 Stinger missiles) |
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| 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 the first and to date only country in Africa and the Middle East to possess a helicopter carrier.
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 was 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.
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