The French are ramping up in Africa
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Very rare pic show a French Navy Rafale M carrier-borne fighter carrying a nuclear air-launched cruise missile (ASMP-A).

Most likely that weapon is a BDU,Bomb Dummy Unit. I can't imagine the French flying a real nuclear weapon around for training. Let alone making an arrested landing with one.
 
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Charles de Gaulle : un porte-avions modernisé (in french) after overhaul it now only carries Rafales as the Super Etendard was decomissioned. 30 Rafales on board instead of formerly 24.

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The only non-American Nuclear CATOBAR carrier in the world, the French Charles De Gaulle, pictured here in 2018 during exercises with the US Navy

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