The French navy has successfully carried out an unarmed submarine launch of an M51 ballistic missile, the Defense Ministry in Paris says.
The test, conducted from the Bay of Audierne in northwest France, was accomplished “as scheduled,” marking the fourth such successful test of M51 missiles conducted carried out between 2006 and 2008.
The test, said a statement from the French Ministry of Defense, was launched from the submarine Le Terrible. It was tracked during the entire flight by the missile test center of the French Armament Procurement Agency and also surveyed by the vessel Monge.
“Defense Minister Herve Mortin expressed his great satisfaction with the success which is so far the four experimental flight of the M51 strategic missile without a nuclear warhead,” the statement said.
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