Pluton WSA Mailly-le Camp
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The 3rd Artillery Regiment used 6 launchers with Pluton missiles. A French nuclear-armed short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) system launched from a transporter erector launcher (TEL) platform mounted on an AMX 30 tank chassis. It was designed to provide the tactical part of French nuclear deterrence during the Cold War.
The Pluton came in replacement of the US Honest John missile. It had an operating range between 17 and 120 km (11 and 75 mi), with a CEP of 150 m. This short range only allowed strikes on targets in West Germany or within France itself.
This was the operational storage site until Pluton was retired in 1993.
The Pluton came in replacement of the US Honest John missile. It had an operating range between 17 and 120 km (11 and 75 mi), with a CEP of 150 m. This short range only allowed strikes on targets in West Germany or within France itself.
This was the operational storage site until Pluton was retired in 1993.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 48°39'9"N 4°15'18"E
- Army ammo storage 33 km
- Airbase 113 Saint Dizier Robinson 46 km
- Chaumont Semoutiers Air Base 85 km
- Brétigny-sur-Orge Air Base 143 km
- Dijon Air Base 164 km
- Orléans – Bricy Air Base 200 km
- Avord Airbase 216 km
- Crucey (Senonches) airbase (closed) 234 km
- Airbase 705 Tours 296 km
- Naval comms center Rosnay 312 km
- Trouans 2.1 km
- Poivres 3.9 km
- Dosnon 4.4 km
- Mailly-le-Camp 5.6 km
- Grandville 6.7 km
- Humbauville 10 km
- Sompuis 10 km
- Saint-Ouen-Domprot 11 km
- Dampierre 12 km
- Le Meix-Tiercelin 14 km