China has built upon decades of earlier failures to field a growing submarine force. Its attack boats and boomers have grown much quieter and harder to track. The fleet build-up shows the ...

China showed off its nuclear second-strike capability – the ability to hit back after an enemy launches an initial nuclear attack – just two days before US Secretary of State Antony Blinken ...

The new Ju Lang-3 (JL-3) missile replaces the older JL-2 on China’s ballistic missile submarines. However, Chinese submarines cannot reach the continental U.S. from their existing patrol areas ...

In a series of tweets, Kristensen pointed out that "unlike the JL-2, the longer-range JL-3 SLBM can deliver "multiple" warheads. But the weight of full load would probably reduce maximum range ...

China's previous model SLBM, the JL-2, had a range about 7,200 kilometers, while the new JL-3 could have a range of more than 10,000 kilometers, the report said, citing other sources.

The JL-3, or Julang, SLBM reportedly has a range of over ten thousand ... “Before the upgrade, the submarine was armed with the inferior JL-2 that could only hit the northeast United States ...

“Equipped with the CSS-N-14 (JL-2) submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), the PLAN’s six operational Jin-class SSBNs represent the [People’s Republican of China]’s first credible sea ...

The Type 094 (and Type 094A) carry up to 12 Julang-2 (JL-2) submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs), each of which is believed to carry a single nuclear warhead and possess a range of between ...

The JL-2 was supposed to have entered service by 2015 but kept failing test launches. China decided that JL-2 was reliable enough and ordered it installed in all six of the Type 94 SLBMs. Now there is ...

“Before the upgrade, the submarine was armed with the inferior JL-2 that could only hit the northeast United States, but now it’s able to cover the whole American continent.” The JL-3 SLBM ...

The Changzheng-18 carries 12 of China’s highly capable JL-2 SLBMs (Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile). The JL-2 SLBM or “Giant Wave 2” is a second-generation intercontinental range ...