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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

New Chinese Submarine-Launched Missile Can Reach U.S.

Type 094 Jin class SSBNChina is set to deploy by the end of this year a submarine-launched ballistic missile capable of reaching the continental U.S., Defense News reported Monday.

The news comes from a draft report by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Commission.

The submarine-launched missile is called JL-2 and could be deployed aboard an 8,000-ton Type 094 nuclear submarine. It has a range of 8,000 km that puts the entire U.S. mainland in reach if fired from the Pacific Ocean.

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