DefenceTalkFrench President Francois Hollande said a controversial sale of two state-of-the art warships by France to Russia was still on course despite Moscow’s widely opposed stand over Crimea. The 2011 sale of the Mistral warships, worth one billion euros ($1.4 billion), was already a deep source of concern for France’s NATO and European Union allies, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/france-says-warship-deal-with-russia-still-alive-58968/

DefenceTalkThe construction of the stern for the first Mistral helicopter carrier being built for the Russian Navy will be finished in France because a Russian shipyard cannot meet the deadline specified in the contract, a senior Russian defense official said Tuesday. “We will have the whole stern made there [in France], we won’t take risks […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-moves-mistral-stern-construction-to-france-48187/