JPRS ID: 9355 WEST EUROPE REPORT

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JPRS L/9355
= 20 October 1980
West Eur~ e Re ort
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CFOUO 41 /80)
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JPRS L/9355
20 October 1980
WEST EUROPE REPORT
(FOUO 41/80)
CQM~'ENTS
THEATER NUCLEAR FORCES
FRANCE
First 'AMSP' Tactical Nuclear Missile Described
(Pierre Langereux; AIR & COSMOS, 12 Jul 80) 1
'Hades' Missile, PLUTON's Successor, Described
_ (Pierre Langereux; AIR & COSMOS, 12 Jul 80) 6 -
New Ttiomson-CSF Target Acquiaition System
(Pierre Langereux; AIR & COSMOS, 12 Jul 80) 9
COUNTRY SECTION
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
U.S. Foreign Policy: Iran, Europe, Energy, Other Issues
- (Pierre Hassner; PROJET, Sep-Oct 80) 10
Bean-Eating Pest Mutations Studied -
(Fabien Gruhier; LE NOUVEL OBSERVATEiJR,
6-12 Sep 80) 21
Briefs
Counterespionage Cooperation 24
FRANCE
General on Possible Reasons for Soviet Poland Intervention
(Georges Buis; LE NOUVEL OBSERVATEUR, 6-12 Sep 80) 25 -
Poasible Long-Term Interdependence in Energy, Finance,
Politics .
(Jacques Lesourne; FUi"TRIBLES, Jul-Aug 80) 28
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Briefs
New SDECE Director 40
Terrorism in Guadeloupe 40
More Police 41
Military Fuel Costs 41
Submarine Conatruction Demand 41
SPAIN
Constitutional, Electoral Problems of Political Party System
� (Jose Miguel de Azaola; CAMBIO 16, various dates) 42
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THEATER NLTCLEAR FORCES FRANCE
FIRST 'ASMP' TACTICAL NUCLEAR MISSILE DESCRIBED
Paris AIR & COSMOS in French 12 Jul 80 pp 81-83
- [Article by Pierre Langereux: "'AMSP,' the First French Air-to-Ground Tac-
tical Nuclear Missile"]
[Text] The ASMP medium-range air-to-ground weapon system, which is to go
into service in the latter half of 1985,1 is the first airborne tactical nu-
~ clear missile made in France. It is intended for in-depth attack against
strongly defended tactical objectives such as communications centers, com-
mand posts, airports, etc. For this purpose, the ASMP will be equipped with
a thermonuclear warhead presently being developed by the CEA [Atomic Energy
Commission]-DAM [expansion unknown).
The ASMP has been designed especially to be mounted on the Dassault-Breguet
htirage 2000, which will be the principal carrier of the new missile. The
ASMP will also be installed on the 15 Mirage IV strategic bombers that will
be kept in service until 1985,2 as well as the Navy's Super-Etendards (re-
placing the AN 52 tactical nuclear bomb). These various airplanes will car-
ry a single missile, either underwing, in the case of the Supec-Etendard, or
under the fuselage, in the case of the Mirage 2000 and the Mirage IV. Fur-
thermore, the first airplane to be equipped with the ASMP will be the Mirage
IV, with the Mirage 2000, in the version desinged to carry the ASMP, going
into service in 1986. France has planned to acquire a little less than 100
specimens of this version. -
The installation of the ASMP missile has been designed so as to reduce the
tasks on board the airplane to the minimum, which has led to extensive auto-
mation of the operations.3
There are two principal phases, each initiated by an order issued manually
- and then proceeding automatically.
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Preparation for firing consists particularly in putting the missile's com-
puter and inertial plant into the proper initial configuration: automatic
- transfer to the computer of the target coordinates and of the data charac-
terizing the position and speed profile of the trajectory to be followed,
and copying by the missile's inertial plant of the parameters of the air-
plane`s inertia] plant.
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