Submarines: January 23, 2000

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France has commissioned its second new-generation nuclear missile submarine, the Temeraire. Like the Triomphant, it carries 16 M45 missiles which will be replaced in 2008 with longer-range M51s. The French government has given the go-ahead to the ASMP-A air-launched cruise missile (which carries a nuclear warhead). --Stephen V Cole

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