Has France never used napalm bombs?

After thoroughly researching the French tech tree up to the Rafale, I realized that there are very few French aircraft capable of equipping napalm bombs.

According to my findings, only the P-63, A-1H, F-100D, alpha jet, f-104G, and Super Mystère can use napalm bombs.

Even jet attack aircraft do not utilize napalm bombs.

Did France truly never use napalm bombs in reality?

You can add the F8F-1B with its M116s.

The French dropped plenty of nspalm in Indo China including tons st a time out the back of C-119s.

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France does have some napalm-capable planes at ranks 3-6, but they never truly had a purpose for this after indochina so they stopped using them. On the other hand usa for example used napalm extensively in the vietnam war so later jets like the phantom 2 have access to napalm.
You should also note that the vietnam war is the prolongation of the indochina war, and these are the main conflicts that saw extensive use of napalm, which explains why France and USA don’t have napalm at the same ranks

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As explained just above, France did not really need napalm after Indochina and therefore never equipped its aircraft with it, however the Jaguar A should have the capacity to carry it.

https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/2LQQXdp28rvE

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The French used naplm extensively in Algeria (54-62). This was after the end of the 1st IndoChina (46-54) but used many of the same aircraft.

There were new types in service though such as the Dassault MD.311 Flamant Morane-Saulnier MS.500 although these aren’t in game and whether they carried napalm is uncertain. What is known however is the B-26 and T-6 that also arrived during the period certainly did.

There were also Privateers, Lancasters and Neptunes available. Did they carry napalm? Considering the C-119 (and possibly C-47s) did its possible, but you willl have ti dig deeper for proof.

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thx for good information :)

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