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Originally Posted by Raellus
Did the French ever field a nuclear capable submarine-launched cruise missile? My hunch is no.
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No, their submarine force for most Twilight War scenarios would have been 5 or 6 of the
Redoutable-class, with 5 equipped with M4 MIRV-capable ballistic missiles and 0 or 1 with M20 unitary-warhead ballistic missiles (
Redoutable was retired in 1991 in our timeline and never refitted for the M4). There was an air-launched nuclear cruise missile (the ASMP), which would be hard (possibly unsuitable entirely) to develop for use as a sub-launched missile like the Tomahawk since it uses a ramjet engine.