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France Just Fired Its New Nuclear Cruise Missile from a Carrier-Capable Jet

The ASMPA-R missile was fired by a French Navy Dassault Rafale FR3 M fighter jet. The aircraft took off from the Landivisiau Naval Air Base in Brittany. The munition was inert and did not carry an ...

US's NATO ally test-fires nuclear missile

While the Charles de Gaulle is the only NATO surface ship equipped to carry nuclear weapons, it does not deploy with the FANU ...
TASS Russian News Agency

France commissions ASMPA-R missile capable of carrying nuclear charge

MOSCOW, November 14. /TASS/. The French Defense Ministry has put into service a new medium-range air-to-ground missile ASMPA-R capable of carrying a nuclear charge, it said on Thursday after a second ...
Defense Mirror

France Conducts Second Test of Upgraded ASMPA-R Missile from Rafale-M Jet

The upgraded ASMPA-R medium-range air-to-surface missile was test-launched on November 13 by a French Navy Rafale Marine in ...