MOSCOW (ITAR-TASS): Two Mistral-class helicopter carriers, named the Vladivostok and the Sevastopol, will come in service with the Russian Pacific Fleet in the next two or three years.
"This is a new type of ships for Russia. It has never had them before. That is why the command is studying theoretical and practical possibilities of their combat use," Rear Admiral Vasily Lyashok, the deputy commander of the Chief of Staff of the Russian Navy, said in a live interview with the Ekho Moskvy radio station yesterday.
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