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		iSnow 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Isar Aerospace launches Spectrum, fails early in f... The boosters of the Ariane 5 were also developed into the French M51 SLBM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M51_(missile)

panick21_ 10 months ago [–]

With Ariane 6, they switched to Italian soilds. This was basically France buying of Italy so they would side with them to build Ariane 6, rather then Ariane 5 ME that Germany wanted.

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