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Russian Military Cooperation: Three-Prong Approach
Traditionally the Russian military cooperation was considered as one-prong approach: the sale of Russian made military hardware to foreign countries with minimum purchase level of foreign equipment like thermal vision equipment (by THALES). Today in the frame of ongoing military reform in the Russian Army much more often the military cooperation is assessed as two-prong approach with deviation towards the purchase not only equipment but technologies and military hardware itself. The shining example of it is the ongoing negotiations on the Mistral (the Mistral (L9013) is an amphibious assault ship a type of helicopter carrier of the French Navy).
