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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Successful First Firing of Naval Cruise Missile

missile de croisière navalOn May 28, Direction Generale de l’Armement (DGA), the French defence procurement agency, successfully carried out the first test firing of a Missile de Croisière Naval (MdCN) naval cruise missile.

The firing took place at DGA’s missile test range at Biscarosse, in south-western France, and used a vertical launcher similar to those used by French navy surface ships.

The MdCN missile will equip the French Navy’s FREMM multimission frigates from 2014 and its Barracuda nuclear attack submarines from 2017.

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