France's Navy Rafale M armed with Supersonic nuclear cruise missile ASMP-A/R 300kt on board of Nuclear aircraft carrier Charles DeGaule.

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Secondary, flexible, not-too-expensive nuclear strike capability. To back up the M51 submarines. After the end of Cold War France scrapped all others nuclear delivery systems: AN-52 tac nukes, Pluton & Hades MRBM, Plateau d'Albion IRBMs.

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qaf0v4vc0lj6@reddit

It still blows my mind that they scrap those things instead of selling them to collectors.

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mahouorca@reddit

I need more long-exposure nighttime jet photos in my life desperately!!

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UpgradedSiera6666@reddit (OP)

France's Navy Rafale M armed with Supersonic nuclear cruise missile ASMP-A/R 300kt which has a range of at least 600km on board of Nuclear aircraft carrier Charles DeGaule.

The devlopment of the ANS4G that will take over from the ASMP/A-R will enter into its 3rd phase ahead of schedule that nuclear vector will be hypersonic with speed approaching Mach 9 or 10. The range will far exceed 1000km. The yield of the warhead will be adaptable between 75Kt to 600Kt this will give more flexibility of use against the current fixed choice. Those ''new'' nuclear warhead are produced by TechnicAtome.

The VMAX program advance well aswell with new live test expected soon.

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Accidentallygolden@reddit

Hiroshima was 12kt...

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Powerup_Rentner@reddit

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were both small fry compared to any modern nuclear weapon. The development of the hydrogen bomb or even just boosted fission weapons made sure of that.

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Arkaid11@reddit

The warhead is developed by CEA. The missile itself is MBDA.

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My_Soul_to_Squeeze@reddit

Missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, but almost certainly not. Nuclear powered aircraft carrier.

Cool picture, but your title in sensationalist drivel.

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Cool-Acanthaceae8968@reddit

This is technically lots of USN vessels and USAF planes with their “we will neither confirm nor deny” strategic ambiguity BS which is the reason they aren’t allowed into New Zealand.

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My_Soul_to_Squeeze@reddit

Yeah. The title of this post is akin to calling every Arleigh Burke or Tico class ship NuClEaR just because they have VLS tubes for TLAM.

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Hadri1_Fr@reddit

There are other exercises where the war head is acually in the cruise missile and the missile is put on the Rafale, but the Rafale never takes off for obvious safety reasons.

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