LoL As if the world didn't see how successful M-51 SLBM was last month.
So, when missile tests fail, the entire nation becomes "moron", as per you you wrote ? See below.
LOL the french morons who can't even design a aircraft carrier and have to borrow the design from british may not understand the principles of hypersonic missiles. Its ok nobody expect the french to know much about it. They are even behind India in ABM missiles.
US/USSR are the biggest morons nations then (going by your because parlance) because Minuteman/Titan & TopoL-M/Bulava have seen so may failed tests before inducted & being operationally deployed. Are they not the pioneers/masters of missile technology just because of few tests failed. What kind of logic is that ?
& What about India,
Nirbhaya test also failed, right (or partially successful, if you like it that way)? What becomes of India, then?
India even bought Aircraft Carrier design (read, about the original ADS project) from an Italian naval design firm (Fincantieri), so what do you call Indians now ?
French are leaders in this domain, have an excellent industrial base for the same & continue to enjoy a huge early mover advantage over all nations (that includes China, as well), sans US/Russia.
Even our "IGMDP" missile program had some crucial inputs from them (minor but critical inputs, nevertheless). Find out from anyone in know of things, rather than getting carried away by media brouhaha. Being under the NATO nuclear umbrella, they do not have to bother with inducting/operational-izing every single piece of arm they can manufacture. But, that does not take away their oft-demonstrated excellence in space, nuclear, aviation, rare-earth metals & propulsion technologies.
On a sidenote, Israel owes the very existence of its nuclear arsenal to the critical help they received from French from 1950's to mid 1970's, more than the US (who are still less than eager to part with home-grown critical technologies). Though, it is fashionable to deny that in post Cold-War era...
My only point is: Jingoism aside, we wouldn't want much "swearing & name-calling culture" spilling around in DFI, do we ?