The United States reported that, after decades of efforts, China will soon have a real underwater nuclear deterrent, the new creation of the long-range submarines equipped with the new long-range nuclear missiles. Pacific may become tense military area, like the Cold War era of the Atlantic.
Pentagon warily watched the Beijing expansion submarine force.
Submarines to help protect the economic security of vital sea routes to China, and to protect their coastal waters from intrusion. China's nuclear-powered submarines equipped with nuclear weapons, would constitute another threat to the world's major powers such as the United States and Russia and India. This new threat to the United States what it means?
The Pacific Underwater be staged cat-and-mouse game. If the satellite monitoring Chinese submarines departure, the U.S. submarine may wait. "When the Chinese submarine is dispatched, there may be some of the U.S. attack submarine tracking, analyst Hans Kristensen of the Federation of American Scientists, said," This is in order to learn more about the size of the Chinese submarine noise and action law. "
Chinese submarines equipped with the JL-2 nuclear missiles range of about 4500 miles. This means that submarine-launched missiles from the country's coastal not hit the continental United States. They may be able to hit from a 1,000 miles west of Hawaii, Los Angeles, Washington, DC, but if you want to be included in a range of (Chinese submarine) slipped only 1500 miles from the west coast of the United States.
These submarines are facing the key question is: how to survive in a place other than the Chinese waters. In the Pacific, Japan and the United States to install equipment to be able to monitor submarines, Chinese submarines must escape its monitoring, in order to close enough to place the United States fired missiles.
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