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From France. The armed forces have 21 Mirage IIIs, still among the world's best fighters, five Super Etendard aircraft (a carrier-based equivalent of the Mirage), 120 AMX-13 light tanks, 16 Roland surface-to-air missiles, 32 MS-760A Paris II ground-support fighter bomber planes and three corvettes...
...nuclear force in NATO, since the U.S. striking power is so great. Used to big numbers, they dismiss De Gaulle's force as being less than 2% of the striking power of U.S. missiles and aircraft. But at that, De Gaulle's Mirage IV and Etendard IV planes will carry 50-kiloton bombs-more than twice the power of the bomb that leveled Hiroshima. As part of McNamara's conviction that the manned bomber will soon be obsolete, De Gaulle's force will be out of date before it is active-but McNamara will find argument...