Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Air-Sol Moyenne Portée [ASMP] :

The Air-Sol Moyenne Portée (ASMP; medium-range air to surface missile) is a French air-launched nuclear missile, in French nuclear doctrine it is the last-resort "warning shot" prior to a full-scale employment of strategic nuclear weapons.

ASMP is 5.38 m long and weighs 860 kg. It is a supersonic stand-off missile powered by a liquid-fuel ramjet. It flies at Mach
2 to Mach 3, with a range between 80 km and 300 km depending on flight profile. Warhead is a single TN 81 with two yield options, 150 and 300 kt of TNT.

In service --- 1986 - present
Launch
platform --- Dassault Mirage IV, Dassault Mirage 2000N, Dassault Rafale, and Dassault Super Étendard ...

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