(U) I saw some radar data from a French SLBM launch, from the Bay of Biscay to French “territorial” waters south of Newfoundland. French missiles and deployment systems seem to work superbly.
“French missiles and deployment systems seem to work superbly.”
Those are most likely in present manufacture. Also, solid state devices not seeing radiation tend to work regardless of how old they are. (This is changing as current US contracts forbid the use of anti-corrosion treatments as un-green. The company I worked for was seeing field failures right out of the box when new, due to corrosion. This hadn’t happened since the Korean war.)Nuclear bombs are most likely not in current manufacture because they aren’t using the old ones. Also, what do you do with the old ones? They are a political nightmare.
Having worked for the defense arm of Schlumberger I have a lower opinion of French made arms. They regularly sent us equipment that, despite quality data, which was obviously fake, didn’t work. They were often missing components like power supplies, despite having quality seals in place and undisturbed.
Perhaps their missiles are done by different people or maybe equipment they sell to their own government is actually held to quality standards. I don’t know.