Force de dissuasion
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The Force de dissuasion, known as the Force de frappe before 1961, is the French nuclear deterrence force. Formulated immediately after the Second World War, it comprised a triad of air-, sea- and lan
A Rafale of the Strategic Air Forces Command with an ASMP-A missile
A decommissioned nuclear missile silo on the Plateau d'Albion
A Pluton missile mobile launcher
The Redoutable, the first French nuclear missile submarine.
S3 (missile)
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The S3 was a French land-based intermediate-range ballistic missile, equipped with a single 1.2-megatonne thermonuclear warhead. In France it is called an SSBS, for Sol-Sol Balistique Stratégique, or
S3 missile on display at Musée de l'air et de l'espace
General view of the missile
First stage
Exhaust of the first stage