The first AS-30 was a development of the 1960s Nord AS-20 to allow both an increase in range and a much larger warhead, and is almost identical to the earlier AS-20 in design. The AS-30 has four large steeply swept-back fins like those on the AS-20, cruciform in cross-section around the midsection of its body. But because of its larger size, the AS-30 in addition has four smaller fins at the rear of the missile body to increase stability in flight. The AS-30 has a two-stage solid fuel rocket motor, a short burn time booster section which is exhausted through two large nozzles located mid-way between the rear edge's of the large fins, and a longer burn time sustainer, which exhaust at a nozzle located at the back-center of the missile body. As with the AS-20, the AS-30 uses a simple MCLOS g