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France Announces Successful Test Launch of Strategic Ballistic Missile

France Announces Successful Test Launch of Strategic Ballistic Missile

Sputnik International

France has conducted a successful test-launch of a strategic ballistic missile without nuclear warhead, the French Defense Ministry has announced.

2023-11-19T07:57+0000

2023-11-19T07:57+0000

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"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.

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