France Test-Fires Next-Generation M51 Ballistic Missile

Engineers are beginning to analyze flight data from France's new M51 intercontinental ballistic missile, which was fired for the first time last week. An inert version of the 8,000-km.-class (4,971-mi.) missile blasted off from a land-based pad at Biscarrosse in southwestern France at 9:05 a.m...

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