The new Chinese ballistic missile JL-3 Type 094 submarines can have a range of 10 to 14 thousand kilometers and surpass the existing American and Russian counterparts, writes TASS columnist Dmitry Litovkin, commenting on the report of the newspaper The South China Morning Post.
"China has made a very serious technological breakthrough in the field of creating intercontinental ballistic missiles. The appearance of the JL-3 marine solid-fuel rocket is one such evidence. Especially if its flight range characteristics are confirmed. In this case, it still has no equal, " the author says.
Litovkin recalls that the JL-3 can be " capable of hitting targets deep in the United States."
In December 2020, the American magazine Popular Mechanics said that the salvo launch of four ballistic missiles R-30 "Bulava-30", made in the same month, rocket underwater cruiser of strategic purpose of the K-551 Vladimir Monomakh of project 955 "Borey" of the Navy (Navy) of Russia, looks like a "preview of the end of civilization."
Ivan Potapov