One of the two French Mistral helicopter carriers will be delivered to Egypt on Thursday, in the presence of Egypt's Minister of Defense Sedky Sobhi and his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian, Youm7 News reported Tuesday. It is scheduled that the second Mistral carrier will be delivered to Egypt in September 2016. In October 2015, Egypt and France signed a deal on the sale of two French Mistral helicopter carriers.