The French Armed Forces Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, announced yesterday, May 22, on Twitter, that a Rafale fighter jet successfully tested an updated ASMPA-R supersonic nuclear missile.

Its speed? Up to 8,500km/h, at least two to four times faster than the ASMPA, specifies Futura-sciences. Thanks to an ...

A French Rafale combat aircraft carrying the current ASMPA supersonic nuclear missile. A future standard of the aircraft is to carry the ASN4G hypersonic nuclear missile from Luxeuil-St Sauveur ...