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The Air-Sol Moyenne Portée (ASMP; ''medium-range air to surface missile'') is a French nuclear air-launched cruise missile. In French nuclear doctrine it is called a "pre-strategic" weapon, the last-resort "warning shot" prior to a full-scale employment of strategic nuclear weapons. The missile's construction was contracted to Aérospatiale's Tactical Missile Division, now part of MBDA. The missile cost $600 million to develop.〔 ASMP entered service in May 1986, replacing the earlier free-fall AN-22 bomb on France's Dassault Mirage IV aircraft and the AN-52 bomb on Dassault Super Étendard. About 84 weapons are stockpiled. Carrier aircraft are the Dassault Mirage 2000N, Rafale, and Super Étendard; the earlier Mirage IVA was retired in 1996, although Mirage IVP photo reconnaissance aircraft continued in French Air Force service until 2005. ASMP is 5.38 m long and weighs 860 kg. It is a supersonic standoff missile powered by a liquid fuel ramjet. It flies at Mach 2 to Mach 3, with a range between 80 km and 300 km depending on flight profile. Warhead is a single TN 81 with two yield options, 150 and 300 kt of TNT. In 1991, 90 missiles and 80 warheads were reported to have been produced. By 2001, 60 were operational. == ASMP-A == An advanced version known as Air-Sol Moyenne Portée-Amélioré ASMP-A has a range of about 600 km〔http://www.deagel.com/Land-Attack-Cruise-Missiles/ASMP-A_a001115002.aspx〕 at a speed of up to Mach 3 with the new TNA (tête nucléaire aéroportée) 300kt thermonuclear warhead. It entered service in October 2009 with the Mirage 2000NK3 of squadron EC 3/4 at Istres and on July 2010 with the Rafales of squadron EC 1/91 at Saint Dizier.〔Robert Hewson, "French ASMP-A missile enters service". ''Jane's Defence Weekly''. July 14, 2010, p. 14.〕 File:ASMP-A P1220887.jpg|ASMP-A File:SG1059332.JPG|Back of ASMP-A mock-up 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Air-Sol Moyenne Portée」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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