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The 2020 budget of the Ministry of Armies sets aside an envelope of €25 billion between 2019 and 2023 (including €4,7 billion next year) as part of the renewal programs of the two components of the French nuclear deterrent.
France will thus have, in five years, carried out a significant part of the budgetary effort necessary for the succession of its four nuclear launching submarines (SNLE) of the Le Triomphant type, to the development of a new intercontinental ballistic missile as well as the modernization of the ASMPA cruise nuclear missile launched by the Rafale of the Air Force but also those of the French Navy embarked on the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle.
Commitments will continue in the coming years to complete ongoing programs.
The sea component will see the construction of a third generation of SSBNs to replace the current submarines (Le Triomphant, Le Téméraire, Le Vigilant et Le Terrible), commissioned between 1996, 1999, 2004 and 2010.
All have already been modernized, especially the first three, adapted to the integration of the missile M51, which now has the new TNO warheads succeeding the TN75.
A new version of the French ballistic missile, the M51.3, is scheduled to be launched in 2025.
The studies are underway and the first long-term supplies will be launched, the construction of the one should start in 2023 on the Naval Group site in Cherbourg with the aim of commissioning it in the early 2030s. A first view of these future SSBNs (below) was circulated in the presentation document of the 2020 budget.
For the air component, distributed between the Air Force Strategic Forces (FAS) and the Aeronaval Nuclear Force (FANu) of the Navy, the ASMPA is modernized with a new nuclear warhead (TNU) . Then the missile will be replaced by 2035 by a new generation weapon, the ASN4G.
It will be recalled that the French nuclear arsenal, as detailed by François Hollande in 2015, comprises 300 nuclear warheads, grouped essentially within the sea component.
https://www.meretmarine.com/fr/cont...s-pour-le-renouvellement-des-deux-composantes
@Nilgiri
France will thus have, in five years, carried out a significant part of the budgetary effort necessary for the succession of its four nuclear launching submarines (SNLE) of the Le Triomphant type, to the development of a new intercontinental ballistic missile as well as the modernization of the ASMPA cruise nuclear missile launched by the Rafale of the Air Force but also those of the French Navy embarked on the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle.
Commitments will continue in the coming years to complete ongoing programs.
The sea component will see the construction of a third generation of SSBNs to replace the current submarines (Le Triomphant, Le Téméraire, Le Vigilant et Le Terrible), commissioned between 1996, 1999, 2004 and 2010.
All have already been modernized, especially the first three, adapted to the integration of the missile M51, which now has the new TNO warheads succeeding the TN75.
A new version of the French ballistic missile, the M51.3, is scheduled to be launched in 2025.
The studies are underway and the first long-term supplies will be launched, the construction of the one should start in 2023 on the Naval Group site in Cherbourg with the aim of commissioning it in the early 2030s. A first view of these future SSBNs (below) was circulated in the presentation document of the 2020 budget.
For the air component, distributed between the Air Force Strategic Forces (FAS) and the Aeronaval Nuclear Force (FANu) of the Navy, the ASMPA is modernized with a new nuclear warhead (TNU) . Then the missile will be replaced by 2035 by a new generation weapon, the ASN4G.
It will be recalled that the French nuclear arsenal, as detailed by François Hollande in 2015, comprises 300 nuclear warheads, grouped essentially within the sea component.
https://www.meretmarine.com/fr/cont...s-pour-le-renouvellement-des-deux-composantes
@Nilgiri
