AN 51

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The AN 51 is based upon the MR 50 which is the same physics package as used in the AN 52 bomb, the AN 51 was the warhead for the Pluton short range missile used by the Armée de Terre. It has two yields, 10 and 25 kt. The Pluton system was retired in 1992-93.

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• Norris, Robert, Burrows, Andrew, Fieldhouse , Richard Nuclear Weapons Databook, Volume V, British, French and Chinese Nuclear Weapons, San Francisco, Westview Press, 1994, ISBN 0-8133-1612-X

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