The French ''airborne nuclear warheads (TN81)'' is a

thermonuclear warhead A thermonuclear weapon, fusion weapon or hydrogen bomb (H bomb) is a second-generation nuclear weapon design. Its greater sophistication affords it vastly greater destructive power than first-generation nuclear bombs, a more compact size, a low ...

carried by the Air-Sol Moyenne Portée (ASMP) medium-range air-to-surface missile, a component of the

Force de frappe The ''Force de frappe'' (French language, French: "strike force"), or ''Force de dissuasion'' ("deterrent force") after 1961,Gunston, Bill. Bombers of the West. New York: Charles Scribner's and Sons; 1973. p104 is the designation of what used to ...

French nuclear deterrent. The warhead was introduced in 1988. By 1991, 80 warheads had been produced. Deployment: 60 warheads carried by the ASMP equipping the 60 Mirage 2000 N with the French Air Force and 20

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of Naval Aviation. The TN81 has a yield of 300

kilotons TNT equivalent is a convention for expressing energy, typically used to describe the energy released in an explosion. The is a unit of energy defined by that convention to be , which is the approximate energy released in the detonation of a m ...

It has been replaced by 54

TNA (Airborne nuclear warhead) The French ''Tête nucléaire aéroportée - Airborne nuclear warhead (TNA)'' is a thermonuclear warhead carried by the Air-Sol Moyenne Portée Amélioré (ASMPA) medium-range air-to-surface missile, a component of the Force de frappe French nucl ...

carried by the ASMPA equipping the Mirage 2000 N and

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. Specifications: *

thermonuclear weapon A thermonuclear weapon, fusion weapon or hydrogen bomb (H bomb) is a second-generation nuclear weapon design. Its greater sophistication affords it vastly greater destructive power than first-generation nuclear bombs, a more compact size, a low ...

* yield from 100 to 300

kiloton TNT equivalent is a convention for expressing energy, typically used to describe the energy released in an explosion. The is a unit of energy defined by that convention to be , which is the approximate energy released in the detonation of a ...

* insensitive explosives

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