“We are anticipating that combat patrols of submarines carrying the new JL-2 submarine-launched ballistic missile will begin next year,” Gertz quotes an unnamed U.S. Defense Official as sayin ...

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. China has ...

The older SLBM is the 42-ton JL(Julang)-2, which is 13 meters (43 feet) long and two meters (6.5 feet) in diameter with a range of 7,200 kilometers. The warhead can carry one large (megaton yield) ...

That is nearly 30 percent farther than the earlier, than the less reliable JL-2. The JL ((Julang) 3 may be the first Chinese SLBM reliable enough to use regularly in Chinese SSBNs (ballistic missile ...

They are equipped with 12 missile tubes, each capable of firing the JL-2 submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), which can carry up to three nuclear warheads to a target up to 7,200 ...

Defense News reports that the China’s JL-2 submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) is expected to reach initial operational capability (IOC) by the end of 2014. The source of the report is a ...

China has carried out a flight test of a new submarine-launched ballistic missile in the Yellow Sea ... The Chinese navy tested the JL-3 missile in the Bohai Bay late last month, a source familiar ...

Each JL-2 missile can be armed with either a single ... Former PLA instructor Song Zhongping did not say what type of SLBM the Type 094A was armed with, but said it would boost China's second ...

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 ...

the JL-2. The distance between Shanghai and Honolulu is about 4,900 miles, which would put Hawaii within range of Chinese sub-launched missiles, and about 6,100 miles to San Francisco and 7,400 ...

The scheduled test was normal, China’s Ministry of National Defence said on Thursday, when asked about the alleged test launch of a JL-3 submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) on June 2 ...