France Announces Successful Test Launch of Strategic Ballistic Missile
20231119
PARIS (Sputnik) - France has conducted a successful test-launch of a strategic ballistic missile without nuclear warhead, the French Defense Ministry has announced.
"Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu has expressed his satisfaction with the successful ... test launch of strategic ballistic missile M51.3 without a nuclear warhead," the defense ministry said in a statement late on Saturday.
The missile landed in the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean a few hundred kilometers off the coast, the statement read.
The statement added that the test-launch had been carried out with strict observance of France's international obligations.
© Sputnik
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