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Mistral is a short-range air defence (SHORAD) missile system that can be used from vehicles, surface ships, and helicopters, as well as in a portable configuration. The "Mistral" missile is transported in a transport and launch container (MPC) together with "friend or foe" interrogator, power source and tripod with its sighting devices.
Mistral Engines SA was a Swiss developer and manufacturer of wankel rotary aviation light aircraft, helicopter and unmanned military vehicle engines. [1] Its headquarters was in Geneva, Switzerland [ 2 ] and was majority owned by DEA General Aviation, a Chinese company based in Guangdong .
Mistral wind blowing near Marseille.In the centre is the Château d'If.. The mistral (Catalan: mestral, Corsican: maestrale, Croatian: maestral, Greek: μαΐστρος, Italian: maestrale, Maltese: majjistral) is a strong, cold, northwesterly wind that blows from southern France into the Gulf of Lion in the northern Mediterranean. [1]
The Mistral class is a class of five landing helicopter docks built by France. Also known as helicopter carriers, and referred to as "projection and command ships" (French: bâtiments de projection et de commandement or BPC) and "porte-hélicoptères amphibie" (PHA) since 2019, a Mistral-class ship is capable of transporting and deploying 16 NH90 or Tiger helicopters, four landing craft, up to ...
Mistral (missile), a surface-to-air missile developed in France; Mistral (pisco), a brand of pisco named after Gabriela Mistral; Mistral (software), an information retrieval software system; Mistral (typeface), a 1953 casual typeface designed by Frenchman Roger Excoffon; Le Mistral, an express train which ran between Paris and Nice
Mistral was created in 1970 to meet the needs of CNEXO (now IFREMER). [2] This version was still rudimentary and was designed for a time when disk space was very expensive, and therefore used magnetic tapes and only sequential processing was allowed.
The Mistral class is a class of cruise ships, now owned and operated by MSC Cruises and Ambassador Cruise Line. There are currently five active Mistral -class cruise ships, the lead vessel, MS Ambition (1999 as Mistral ), MSC Armonia (2001 as European Vision ), MSC Sinfonia (2002 as European Stars ), MSC Lirica (2002) and MSC Opera (2003).
The Aviasud Mistral has a biplane configuration. The Aviasud Mistral was designed by two Belgian engineers, Francois Goethals and Bernard d'Otreppe. The prototype first flew in May 1985, [2] and the aircraft entered production with AviaSud engineering in Fréjus, [3] with the first production model having its maiden flight in February 1986. [2]