ASMP (Air-Sol Moyenne Portee) is an air-launched nuclear standoff missile for operation by the French air force and naval aviation. Production of the basic strategic version of the missile concluded in 1992, with all 90 missiles originally programmed having been procured. Aerospatiale was developing a version of the ASMP as a new an-tiship missile, first called the ANNG (Anti-Navire-Nouvelle Generation) and later ANF (Anti-Navire Futur) to replace the canceled Franco-German ANS. It was originally planned that the missile would consist of the ANS seeker mated to the ASMP airframe. Aerospatiale got the official go-ahead for the program in December 1994, a year after the cancellation of ANS. As the first stage of the effort, the Vesta (Vec-teur a statoreacteur) missile testbed was developed to prove the propulsion system with three flight tests scheduled for 2001-2002. Germany withdrew from the program in 1998 and France announced late in 1999 that they would cease funding the program for the time being.
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