French Submarines Armed With New M51.3 Nuclear Missile Capable of Global Reach

French Ministry of the Armed Forces and prime contractor – ArianeGroup – recently announced the successful first flight test of the M51.3 strategic ballistic missile, which exceeds the power of the Little Boy atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima ten times. Picture: M51.3 missiles’s maximum range exceeds ten thousand kilometres with six warheads or fourteen thousand with a lighter payload | DGA France has just taken a major step in modernising its nuclear deterrent.