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Canadian purchase of French-built Mistral-class warships on the table?


By David Pugliese
Defence Watch
The Canadian military has emerged as a potential destination for the controversial French-built Mistral-class helicopter carrier ships, built for Russia, the International Business Times is reporting.
The possibility of a Canadian solution appeared in French media after French President François Hollande visited Canada this week, the newspaper reported.
As Defence Watch readers know, this type of suggestion has surfaced before. Former Conservative Senator Hugh Segal suggested that Canada or NATO should buy the Mistral-class military assault ships rather than allow them to be added to the Russia naval fleet.
The deal is worth $1.6 billion to $1.8 billion (different figures …read more

Source: Ottawa Citizen

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