M51 SLBM

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M51 SLBM
M51 SLBM
M51 SLBM
Basic data
Function SLBM
Manufacturer EADS Astrium Space Transportation
Unit cost 4 billion Euro for the program
Entered service 2010
General characteristics
Engine three stage solid propellant
Launch mass 56,000 kg
Length 12.0 m
Diameter 2.3 m
Speed Mach 25
Range 8,000–10,000 km
Warhead M51.1 = 6 TN 75 MIRV using the 100 kt of TNT (420 TJ), with penetration aids.
M51.2 (2015) = using the new Tête Nucléaire Océanique
Guidance Inertial & star positioning
Launch platform Triomphant class submarines

The M51 SLBM is the French Navy's future submarine launched ballistic missile, designed to replace the M45 SLBM (In French terminology the MSBS - Mer-Sol-Balistique-Stratégique "Sea-ground-Strategic ballistic")

Each missile carries six independently targetable TN 75 thermonuclear warheads.

The missiles are a compromise over the M5 SLBM design, which is to have a range of 11,000 km (6,200 miles) and carry 10 TNO MIRV of the new generation (Tête Nucléaire Océanique, "Oceanic nuclear warhead"). The M51 will enter service in 2010.

The M51 performed its first flight test (unarmed) on the 9 November 2006 from the French missile flight test centre in Biscarrosse (Landes). The target was reached twenty minutes later, in the north-west of the Atlantic Ocean].[1]

  • Flag of France France: The French Navy expects to have the M51 enter service in 2010, and will be the only operator of the missile.

Comparison of different nuclear systems: left, the SNLE (Redoutable type) with the M4 missile; right, the SNLE-NG (Triomphant type) with the present M45 missile and the future M51 missile.
Comparison of different nuclear systems: left, the SNLE (Redoutable type) with the M4 missile; right, the SNLE-NG (Triomphant type) with the present M45 missile and the future M51 missile.
French nuclear armament
Strategic missiles

missile M1 | missile M2 | missile M3 | missile M4 | missile M45 | missile M51 | missile M5
Pre-strategic missiles
Pluton | Hadès | ASMP
Nuclear warheads
AN-11 bomb | AN-22 bomb | AN-52 bomb | MR 31 | MR 41 | MR 50 CTC | AN 51 CTC | AN 52 CTC | TN 60 | TN 61 | TN 70 | TN 71 | TN 80 | TN 81 | TN 90 |TN 75 | TNO
Related subjects
French nuclear deterrence | FOST
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