China’s New SLBM as Good as or Better than US Trident II D5
Posted: August 17, 2017 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: China, JL-3, SLBM, strategic nuclear submarine, Trident II 3 Comments
File photo: Underwater launch of missile by a certain new-type submarine of PLAN
At IHS Jane’s 360’s recent report on modification of China’s world largest Type 032 conventional submarine for test launch of China’s new SLBM speculated to be JL-3, China’s official TV media CCTV interviewed Chinese military expert Du Wenlong.
Du said that China’s new generation of nuclear submarines shall be extremely quiet and stealthy with extremely great capabilities to remain long underwater and extremely good command, communication and integrated networking combat capabilities.
As for foreign media’s speculation that China’s new-generation JL-3 SLBM will be as good as or even better than US Trident II D5 in range, MRIV and accuracy, Du said that if China’s JL-3 SLBM and Type 096 strategic nuclear submarines are really commissioned, they will play their magic role to ensure peace and stability in the oceans. It is what we expect, he said.
Source: mil.huanqiu.com “Expert on China’s new generation of nuclear submarines: Stealth Functions Shall Be Extremely Good” (summary by Chan Kai Yee based on the report in Chinese)
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The Trident II D5 famouse failure in the recent test by HMS Vengeance. Yankee missiles are not all cranked up to be.
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Trident SLBM is an old missile from bygone era. Nowadays, even North Korea has no problem building similar stuff. Just because the American put some cheap computers with fancy apps does not make it ‘advance’. As with most American techs, their sophistication is only an exaggeration, especially now that they lack Chinese scientists. To compare JL-3 with Trident II D5 is clearly a joke, JL-2 was proven to be comparable or better than the Trident 2 D5 over a decade ago in 2005. Beside, the Trident has no MIRV capability Although there is concept to develop it, it has been mysteriously stalled for nearly a decade, possibly because of problem of recruiting Chinese scientists. In the end, it will be just as comparing the J-20 with dysfunction F-35, then trouble-ridden F-22, and finally with obsolete F/A-18, the last problem-free American jet.
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