JPRS ID: 9227 WEST EUROPE REPORT

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APPROVE~ FOR RELEASE= 2007/02/08= CIA-R~P82-00850R0003000'10010-6 E ~ - ~ ; r' ~ ~ ~ ~ APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300010010-6 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300010010-6 ~ FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY JPRS L/9227 - 30 July 1980 , W~st E u rd e R e o rt p ~ � (FOUO 33/80) FB~$ FOREIGN BROADCAST INFORMATION SERVICE FOR OF~'ICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300010010-6 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300010010-6 NOTE , JPRS pu~lications contain information primarily from foreign newspapars, periodicals and books, but also from news agency - transmissions and broadcasts. Materials from foreign-language sources are translated; those from English-language sources are transcribed or reprir..ted, with the original phrasing and other characteristics retained. 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APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300010010-6 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300010010-6 ~ FnR OFFICIAL USE ONLY JPRS L/9227 30 July 19 80 - WEST EUROPE REPORT (FOUO 33/80) CONTENTS ZTiEATER NUCLEAR FORCES FRAN CE Missile Propulsion Developments Forecast to 1985 (Pierre Langereux; AIR & COSI~S, 7 Jun 80) 1 New Albion Plateau S3 Missile Unit Now Operational (Jean de Galard; AIR & OOSMOS, 31 May 8(]) . . . . . 2 - Briefs Nuclear Sub Base 8 CAtJNTRY SECTION FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY Genscher Outlines Foreign Policy for the Coming Decade (Hans-Dietrich Genscher; EUROPA AR(HIV, 25 Jun 80) . 9 FRAN CE Poll Reveals Feeling on Defense, Deterren~e, War (L'EXPRESS, 3"1 May 80) 26 ~ UDF Pre~ident Lecanuet Interviewed (Jean Iecanuet Interview; PAR3S MATCH, 6 Jim 80)........ 30 Esterel Shipyard Still Making Wooden Warships (Artabro; DEFENSA, May 80) . 33 - a - [III - WE - 150 FOUO] FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300010010-6 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300010010-6 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Briefs Commtmis t De fens e S t udy 38 _ Civil. Defense Guide 38 Science Secretary 38 ~ S PAIl~1 PCE l7issident Semprun Retlect~ on Demise of Eurocommunism _ (Jorge Semprtm Interview; CAMBIO 16, 1 Jun 80) . 39 Briefs Anti-Terrorist Cooperation 45 Naval Modernization Progra~n 45 SWE DEN Center Party's Fate Depends on Falldin's Economy Moves (Ake Landquist; VEQZANS AFF_ARER, 12 Jun 80) . . . . . . . 46 Poll Shows Swedes Ready To Accept Belt-Tightening Laws (VEQZANS AFFARER, ].2 Jun 80) . . . . . . . . . 49 - b - FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300010010-6 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300010010-6 - FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY THEATER r,;iTCLEAR FORCES FRANCE ~ MISSILE PROPULSION DEVELOPMENTS FORECAST TQ 1985 Paris AIR ~ COSMOS in French 7 Jun 80 p 18 [Article by Pierre Langereux: "The SEP's Hopes Looking Toward 1985"] [Text] Big civilian and military propulsion programs will continue to provide - the SEP [European Propellant Company] with most of its turnover until 1985, Pierre S~ufflet, SEP's president, said at the GRPAE [expansion unknown] dinner on 3 June. ' _ Development of the new MSBS-M4 ballistic missile is approaching completion with the initial firing scheduled for October 1980. The SEP is now basing - its hopes on: studies of future M40 and SX (mobile missile) ballistic mis- _ siles; a feasibility study for the 60-ton cryogenic engine for Ariane 5 (135,000,000 francs between 1980 and 1983); development of apogee explosive engines for the Meteostat (Magus 1), Marecs A(Magus 1S), ECS [Command and Service Squadron] and Telecom (Magus 2), direction of which was taken over by the CNES [National Center for Space Studies] earl;� in 1980; and sales of ine- teorolo~ic and observation satellite image receivilg stations, the export mar- ket for which is estimated at 1,000,000 francs between now and 1985 (and the same amount for support stations). The SEP, which has already been retained _ for the CNES "spot" station and a Landsat I3 station in Brazil, hopes to get about 20 to 25 percent of this market. The SEP has also been retained by the CNES for the propulsion system (40,000,000 francs) and deployment mechanism of the "spot" satellite's solar panels (15,000,000 francs). ~ _ The SEP president also believes that a"decision of principle" was taken in - favor of the French military observation "Sambo" sateilite, but with no def- inite launching date. The SEP is also conducting studies of future laser - guidance of anti-tank missiles, and it is going to respond to a call for French bids on a 150-mile-range unguided anti-tank missile for street combat. COPYRIGHT: AF,C, 1980 8946 CSO: 3100 - 1 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300010010-6 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300010010-6 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY THEATER NUCLEAR FORCES FRANCE ~ NEW ALBION PLATEAU S3 MISSILE UNIT NOW OPERATIONAL Paris AIR ~ COSMOS in French 31 May 80 pp 52-54 ~Article by Jean de GalardJ [Text] On Friday 23 May 1980, on the Albion Plat eau, where the First Stra- tegic Missile Group (GMS) has been in place sinc e 1968, Defense Minister Yvon Bourges attended the final operations befor e putting into servi.ce on 1 June 1980 the first of two firing units consis t ing of nine second-generation - SSBS-S3 missiles. Also attending the preliminary activities were officers of the firms and services that wexe the architects of the S3 program's success at the industrial and technical level: Jacques Mitterand, Aerospace Chairman, and Mr. Chevalier, who is military operations dir ector for the Atomic Energy Commission. General Engineer Coliet-Billon, technical directo r for missiles, and those on the operational level who today, by virtue of the ir position, are in charge of "making available to the French government at al 1 times and to the highest de- gree the surfao~ to-surfaoedeterrent force," Air F orce Gen Guy Fleury, Air Force chief of staff, Aix Force Maj Gen Jean Sauinier, cor.unanding the Strategic Air Forces, Air Force Niaj Gen Jean Maffre, commanding the First GMS, and many of the area's prominent civilians were also present. The history of the First GMS, which is confused t oday with that of the Stra- - tegic surfaoe�~o-surfaoe Force, is summed up in a few dates: it was created in - 1967; in 1968 it took up its position on the Alb i on Plateau; it is made up of . - two firing units, each consisting of nine S2 mis s iles, which conducted their first operational alert on 2 August 1971 and 23 April 1972 respectively. In 1972 a defense council conceived the idea of an SSBS-S3A with a megaton thermonuclear charge, to replace the S2 missile after 1980. In 1975 the program was decided upon and launche d. Its objective was to put the first S3 firing unit into operational servic e on 1 June 1980. Work on the conversion began in April 1978 and involved putt ing one of the two S2 units out of service, the other of course remaining 100 percent operational, Or~ 1 June 1980, five years after the decision had b e en made and the project launched, the deadlines were met ~nd the firing unit had remained available = to go into operation at any moment. _ 2 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300010010-6 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300010010-6 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY , That availability could not have ?-~een achieved except at the price of ex- _ tremely strict'management of the work (control over deadlines and costs), and the defense minister hastened to emphasize that strictness--which made it possible to follow exactly a schedule set five years in advance--, as well as to express publicly the government's recognition of all the architects of that success. Work is to begin in the ,zext few weeks on repla~ing the second firing unit's S2 missiles with S3s identical to those now operational in the f~.rst firing unit. This second SSBS-S3 unit is scheduled to go into service in late 1982. The defense minister intended to demonstrate by his presence last week on the Albion Plateau--as 20 days earlier he had been eager to presic?e over the cere- mony in Brest marking the departure of the Fifth Submarine of the Strategic De- terrent Force on its first operational campaign (AIR ET COSMOS, No 812)--that he was placing equal value and importance on two of the three components of the French Strategic Deterrence Force: the Strategic Oceanic Force (FOST), each of whose five SNLEs [Missile Launching vuclear Submarines] today carries 16 M20 megaton thermonuclear charged missiles, and the SSBSes of the Fir~t GMS, whose S3 version is equivalent to the M20. By so doing, the minister had an opportunity to stress the remarkable continuity of French deterrence policy, ~ "whose solid foundation has not been challenged by any political trend." The presence of 18 strategic missiles on the Albion Plateau brings to reality . the idea of the national territory as a sanctuary. ThaL the stationary site contains stationary targets certainly does not mean that one day it can be "totally silenced, even if there should be a massive attack. Retaliatory ca- pability is necessary in any case, and our Si~ILEs thoroughly meet that condi- tion," the minister concluded, "but since no one can ;uarantee that the SNLE will be invulnerable forever, it seemed to us wise to keep several components, the idea being either mobile surface-to-surface missiles or stationary, but movable missiles." Installation on the Albion Plateau of a third firing unit, as initially en- visaged, has now been abandoned insofar as the S2 missile is involved. Its _ availability was excellent for nine years--about 95 to 97 percent�. The S3 - missile's technologic characteristics guarantee that its operational availa- bility will be maintained at an equally high level for seven years. Once a year the Air Force successfully fired, from the Landes Testing Center, a ran- domly-chosen missile; on the Albion Plateau a~imilar S3 firing program will ~ enable verification of the new system's reliability. The S2 and S3 are both missiles having two explosive stages, the first of which (16 tons) is the same in both versions. The S3 is lower in height than ~ ' the S2. From an operational point of view the advantages of the S3 over the S2 are as follows: more power charge (one thermonuclear megaton, as opposed to 150 kilotons for the S2); better penetration capability (greater speed, use of lures, more durable on-board equipment); greater military protection; poten- tial for integral lateral support (suitability for a central firing station 3 FOR OFFICIAL USE Ol~L~Y APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300010010-6 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007102/08: CIA-RDP82-00850R000300010010-6 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY - normally controlling nine missiles to run all 18 sil o s); transmission of in- formation to the FAS [Strategic Air ForceJ command by means of a polychromatic television network which has been dubbed "Scorpion." From a technical point of view the S3's unprovements are in the area of sim- plification and flexibility, thanks to the adaptation of digital technology (small microprocessors, a single type of computer ins tead of three), the e- limination of all ventilation of the equipment compartment, the separation of the two "firing" and "maintenance" sy~stems. The S3's advantages also lie in - - the areas of i.mprove3 preventive maintenance, longer intervals between main- tenance, use of mobile checking bodies that will make it possible to proceed with surface checks witr~QUt cutting off operation of the missile, in cura~.ive maintenance, automati~ confining of damage, computer ized banks equipped with a single computer, under SIMAT [Constant Equipment D ata]. Since last March the First G~IS has been qualified as Atom. 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