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ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — French officers showed off a cutting-edge warship Tuesday to a potential buyer — the Russian navy.
Russian officials have said they were planning to make their first arms deal with a NATO country by buying a French ship such as the Mistral — a 23,700-ton, 980-foot vessel able to carry more than a dozen helicopters, or land forces, hospitals or refugees, among other things. It is the “Swiss army knife” of military ships, said Bruno Daffix, a spokesman for the French Defense Ministry.
