Snake: excellent mate, 10 points.
VV only carried 6 AB-212’s on a normal scale plus a couple of smaller helo’s for ship board training, (She was also used to train naval pilots on how to land at sea since she had such a large deck, pupils could make mistakes on a clear deck and thus progress to smaller decks later on).
Moskva class were indeed very powerful and one would hate to go up against this class in anything (Sub, Surface or Air, didn’t matter toi these ships, they’d kill them all). I would counter that these ships were trully multiroled ships, you could also use them as Amphibious Airbourne Assult ships. I remember reading one time how this was done in an excercise once just to show it could be done. Instead of ASW Ka-25’s they used utility versions and carried 12 troops apiece times 14 helos and established a beach head for a heavier assult force to move in (this was an excercise in the 70’s).
Jeanne d’Arc is a hard call to make as to her role. All the texts I have state that she was used in the following roles in order of priority:
1. Airbourne Helo Assult, 14x Super Ferlons
2. ASW helo carrier, 8x Lynx
3 Helo training ship, various types depending on who needs the training.
Since the introduction of the La Foudre class LSD’s much of the first and third roles now fall on this class, where as the ASW role falls on the ASW ships as there is no specific carrier for them now (another legacy of the Cold War ending).
Mistrale is soon to come on line and this will bring back a small carrier to the Marine Nasional though nothing could ever replace Jeanne d’Arc, she was a good ship.
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