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    France's Ultimate Warning

    From the 70s to the end of the Cold War France deployed its own tracked vehicle launched battlefield nuclear missile, Pluton. A truck and trailer mounted replacement Hades was entering service as the Cold War ended. In peacetime Pluton and its warheads were stationed in France. However, once a...
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    • air launched cruise missile armeé de l'air armée de l'air et de l'espace armée de terre cold war cold war ii cruise missile force de dissuasion france icbm irbm marine nationale nuclear battlefield post-cold war pre-strategic slbm sub-strategic nuke tactical nuke
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    • Forum: Secret Missile, Bomb and Gun Projects
  2. Forest Green

    Land-based M5 - French S3 missile replacement

    It is mentioned here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S3_(missile) Any more information anywhere?
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    • 1er groupement de missiles stratégiques armeé de l'air cold war commandement des forces aériennes stratégiques force de dissuasion forces aériennes stratégiques french fifth republic icbm marine nationale nuclear battlefield post-cold war slbm sol-sol balistique stratégique
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    • Forum: Secret Missile, Bomb and Gun Projects
  3. Grey Havoc

    S-4 and S-45 IRBM projects (France, Cold War)

    https://nuke.fas.org/guide/france/theater/s-4.htm https://calhoun.nps.edu/bitstream/handle/10945/26902/britishfrenchstr00bate.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
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    • 1er groupement de missiles stratégiques armeé de l'air cold war commandement des forces aériennes stratégiques early 1990s force de dissuasion forces aériennes stratégiques france french fifth republic icbm intermediate range ballistic missile late 1980s nuclear battlefield sol-sol balistique stratégique
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    • Forum: Secret Missile, Bomb and Gun Projects
  4. uk 75

    France's pivotal defence role

    While the size and importance of France's armed forces in 1914 and 1939 is well understood, their importance since 1945 does not seem to be appreciated. Until the creation of West Germany's Bundeswehr at the end of the 1950s it was France that bore the brunt of providing the largest West...
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    • armeé de l'air armée de l'air et de l'espace armée de terre cold war cold war ii commandement des forces aériennes stratégiques force de dissuasion force de frappe forces aériennes stratégiques france french fifth republic french fourth republic marine nationale north atlantic treaty organisation nuclear battlefield post-cold war pre-strategic sol-sol balistique stratégique tactical nuke western europe
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    • Forum: The Bar
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