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The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 TN 81 nuclear warhead equips the Air-Sol Moyenne Portée

Air-Sol Moyenne Portée

The Air-Sol Moyenne Portée is a French air-launched nuclear missile. Part of the Force de frappe, in French nuclear doctrine it is the last-resort "warning shot" prior to a full-scale employment of strategic nuclear weapons...

 (ASMP) medium-range air to surface missile, a component of the Force de frappe

Force de frappe

The Force de Frappe is the designation of what used to be a triad of air-, sea- and land-based nuclear weapons intended for dissuasion, and consequential deterrence...

 French nuclear deterrent.

Type: nuclear warhead for ASMP

Air-Sol Moyenne Portée

The Air-Sol Moyenne Portée is a French air-launched nuclear missile. Part of the Force de frappe, in French nuclear doctrine it is the last-resort "warning shot" prior to a full-scale employment of strategic nuclear weapons...

Specifications:

• thermonuclear
• yield from 100 to 300 kt
• insensitive explosives

Initially deployed: 1988

Deployment: 60 warheads carried by the ASMP equipping the 60 Mirage 2000 N with the French Air Force and 20 Super Etendard of Naval Aviation.