St Nazaire Lorient and a bit in the middle (Pictures)

Kapitan · 05-01-16, 07:52 AM

not too sure they seem to be fitted with french equipment not russian as the russians took out all thier stuff.
I think this maybe just a ploy egypt doesnt have the funds to keep these operational for extremely long time i think personally the russians have agreed with france and egypt that if the egyptians buy the units through russian funds once the political situation calms down we may see these ships end up in russian hands anyway so the egyptians are just being the guardians of them.

lets face it egypt is still using Romeo class SSK's and only recently entered into talks to purchase type 209's and the mistrals have no strategic value to the egyptians either, unless they intend to invade israel from the sea

05-01-16, 07:52 AM	#6
Kapitan Sub Test Pilot Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: UK + Canada Posts: 7,132 Downloads: 77 Uploads: 7	not too sure they seem to be fitted with french equipment not russian as the russians took out all thier stuff. I think this maybe just a ploy egypt doesnt have the funds to keep these operational for extremely long time i think personally the russians have agreed with france and egypt that if the egyptians buy the units through russian funds once the political situation calms down we may see these ships end up in russian hands anyway so the egyptians are just being the guardians of them. lets face it egypt is still using Romeo class SSK's and only recently entered into talks to purchase type 209's and the mistrals have no strategic value to the egyptians either, unless they intend to invade israel from the sea __________________ DONT FORGET if you like a post to nominate it by using the blue diamond Find out about Museum Ships here: https://www.museumships.us/ Flickr for all my pictures: https://www.flickr.com/photos/131313936@N03/ Navy general board articles: https://www.navygeneralboard.com/author/aegis/