{"id":73686,"date":"2025-11-16T16:15:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T10:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=73686"},"modified":"2025-11-18T13:41:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T08:11:05","slug":"air-sol-moyenne-portee-renove-asmpa-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/air-sol-moyenne-portee-renove-asmpa-r\/","title":{"rendered":"Air-Sol Moyenne Port\u00e9e-Renove (ASMPA-R)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Air-Sol Moyenne Port\u00e9e-Renove (ASMPA-R) Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the first time, France recently published images of its latest-generation nuclear-capable supersonic air-to-surface cruise missile, the Air-Sol Moyenne Port\u00e9e-Renove (ASMPA-R).<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Air-Sol Moyenne Port\u00e9e-Renove (ASMPA-R)<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the newest version of the ASMP family of <\/span><b>medium\u2010range, supersonic, nuclear\u2010capable cruise missiles.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was developed by <\/span><b>France<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>integral to France\u2019s nuclear deterrence<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, forming a key part of the <\/span><b>air-based component of its nuclear triad.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Air-Sol Moyenne Port\u00e9e-Renove (ASMPA-R) <\/b><b>Features<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It retains a <\/span><b>ramjet architecture<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, with <\/span><b>dual air intakes <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">along the body, enabling <\/span><b>sustained supersonic flight<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at speeds around Mach\u202f3.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has a <\/span><b>range <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of roughly<\/span><b> 600\u202fkilometres.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>warhead <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is understood to be the <strong>T<\/strong><\/span><b>\u00eate Nucl\u00e9aire A\u00e9roport\u00e9e (TNA) design.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">TNA is a so-called \u2018<b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">dial-a-yield\u2019 design <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with reported yield settings ranging from a minimum of 100 kilotons to a maximum of 300 kilotons.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurasiantimes.com\/rafale-m-unleashes-nuclear-punch-france-boosts-its-might-with-launch-of-nuke-capable-asmpa-r-missile-from-naval-jet\/#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ET<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air-Sol Moyenne Port\u00e9e-Renove (ASMPA-R) is the newest version of the ASMP family of medium\u2010range, supersonic, nuclear\u2010capable cruise missiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":73878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3735,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-73686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-air-sol-moyenne-portee-renove-asmpa-r","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}