France test launches another M51 missile
29 April 2021
by Nicholas Fiorenza
The Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA), the French defence procurement agency, conducted a test launch of an unarmed M51 missile from the agency’s missile test site in Landes, southwestern France, on 28 April, the Armed Forces Ministry announced in a press release later the same day.
The DGA conducted a test firing of an unarmed M51 missile from the agency’s missile test site in Landes, France, on 28 April. (DGA)
The DGA reported that its missile testing department monitored the flight of the missile, which landed in the Atlantic Ocean, several hundred kilometres from any coast.