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National Intelligence Bulletin December 8, 1975
FRANCE
France's fourth ballistic missile submarine, the Indomptable, is ready to begin
sea trials. According to the US defense attache in Paris, the initial tests of the
nuclear-'powered submarine will be conducted In the coastal waters off Cherbourg.
Ate the current. rate of progress, the Indomptable should be ready to join the
fleet in early 1977. It probably will be France's first submarine to carry a full load
FRANCE
France is ready to equip one of its three operational ballistic' missile submarines
with the'cbuntry's first megaton' thermonuclear war" :ad, Defense Minister Bourges
announced on Tuesday:
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