French Air Force held regular nuclear maneuvers

On November 20, the French Air Force conducted regular maneuvers, known as Poker, which are held several times a year in order to prepare flight crews for operations using nuclear weapons. weaponsreports aereo.jor.br 4 December.

The training is aimed at simulating a nuclear strike and testing the readiness of nuclear deterrence forces in France, said General Patrick Charaix. Lift team aviation into the air is given from the underground control center in Taverny.

Fighter-bombers Rafale take part in the exercises (in the photo the aircraft rolls out of the hangar with the supersonic ASMP CR with nuclear warhead suspended under the fuselage) and Mirage-2000N ammunition), as well as C-135 tanker aircraft. The operation lasts for several hours, combat aircraft fly at high altitude with the transition to small to overcome the enemy's air defense system, perform refueling in the air.

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[Deniska]

Getting ready ... Infections ...

[755962]

DECIDED TO PLAY IN THE WAR!

[Airman]

All the same, the air defense system is overcome at low altitudes, and nuclear munition can detonate when the aircraft is destroyed.

[Rus2012]

Quote: Povshnik

and nuclear munition can detonate

The probability of a nuclear explosion upon detonation is close to zero. For, if special manipulations are not carried out, explosives - nuclear-scattering materials - are detonated.
There is nothing good in this, but there is no nuclear weapons either ...

[VAF]

Quote: Povshnik

All the same, they overcome the air defense system at low altitudes

The best way has not yet been invented (for aviation in "smart countries", where they are "friends" with the tactics of maintaining a database by aviation)

Quote: Povshnik

nuclear munitions can detonate when an aircraft is destroyed.

Never!!! If the locks (mechanical and electrical) are not removed, then ... it may fall apart, and even then ... only after a fall.

Well, in addition to the photo article, otherwise the author is talking for the Mirage-2000N, but there is no plane So here it is ... the plane and the rocket

[iwind]

Quote: vaf

All the same, they overcome the air defense system at low altitudes

The best way has not yet been invented (for aviation in "smart countries", where they are "friends" with the tactics of maintaining a database by aviation)

And at what speed will the airplane approximately go to the night at the air force?
And at what altitude does the flight take place? And then different sources write from 20 to 100 meters from the surface.
I guess that it will greatly depend on the relief, at least approximately.

I will share an interesting photo about PMV. B-52 next to an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf 1990

[Rus2012]

Rafale fighter-bombers take part in the exercises (in the photo the plane rolls out of the hangar with the ASMP supersonic KR suspended under the fuselage with nuclear warhead)

The operation lasts several hours, combat aircraft perform flights at high altitude with the transition to small to overcome the enemy air defense system, perform refueling in the air ...

Iii?
And why didn’t they write - "and carry out UBP missiles for training purposes"?
It is unlikely that they will ship ASMP with a real nuclear warhead, and then land with special ammunition on board. Only the Yankees were capable of such a thing ... and they lost nuclear bombs in nuclear disaster incidents.

[VAF]

Quote: Rus2012

And why didn’t they write - "and carry out UBP missiles for training purposes"?

Tactical launches will be more correctly expressed, but why is it necessary for an educational purpose? Any object is quite suitable for such exercises.

Quote: Rus2012

It is unlikely that they will take out ASMP missiles with a real nuclear warhead, and then land with special ammunition on board. Only the Yankees were capable of this.

Under the Union, such flights with Real missiles and warheads were carried out regularly!
"Hemorrhoids" of course ... could not be conveyed, but .. they flew and did not "lose" anything

[Ivanovich47]

Quote: "The training is aimed at simulating a nuclear strike"
Quote: "The cost of maintaining France's nuclear arsenal absorbs 10% of its military budget, which is approximately $ 55 billion a year."
France has a little over 350 nuclear warheads. This is an impressive potential, so Russia's concern about the Euro-missile defense is fully justified. The West mimics an attack. For whom it’s clear. NATO has one enemy - Russia. Conclusions must be made.