Genesis
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People's Liberation Army Navy has their own variant, which is actually large (displacement of 20,000 tonnes) -- its the Yuzhao Type 071. It is the PLAN's own variant of Helicopter Carrier. The aft contains the landing platform , but the bow seems similar to the Type 052 DDG of the People's Liberation Army Navy.
The Type 071,
We can, however, it is very pricy. 1 Hyuga Class (fully armed) is $1.2 billion. 1 Izumo Class (fully armed) is $1.5 billion. The JMSDF would save a lot of time and money if we were to acquire these Mistrals. In fact, we don't mind if they strip the Russian weapons and radar systems. That's fine, we can replace these with our own. We can avail of the hull.
First that's a ship for landing troop, like the San Antonio class, we are getting 3 more upgraded ones, and one of them is about to be launched.
The Helicopter carrier is a different animal, like the name we need helicopters, right now we have small numbers of them, well relatively, to America.
The type 71 and 71a is good, but it needs support from our carriers, which as it happens also won't be finished until about 2020, at least the first 2, the others is hard to say.
Helicopter carriers are more or less designed, but not built yet, considering the previous comment on not a lot of helicopters. Regardless of what people say it is not under construction. Got more realistic dreams right now, like advanced destroyers, subs, and frigates, to go with aircraft carriers, cause for whatever reason it's far easier for us to make a fighter than a helicopter.
In terms of helicopters we are going to rip off the Americans like never before, if we are still good with them by 2025, we'll look surprisingly similar in helicopters, and ships and pretty much everything. Oh and also Cujo, we got our own now.
But in terms of Mistral, the cost is more or less the same if you build it yourself. I'm assuming if you build it yourself it's going to be closer to your own needs and would work better. I also think the Izumo is what 30,000 ton rather than 20.