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China Confirms Submarine-Launched Missile Test
JL-3 is Beijing's newest nuclear missile capable of ranging US


Chinese JL-3 Missile Launch

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China's Defense Ministry this week confirmed the test firing of a new submarine-launched ballistic missile the Pentagon regards as a strategic weapon capable of striking anywhere in the United States from underwater launch points.

Asked about the test of the new JL-3 submarine-launched ballistic missile, Sr. Col., Ren Guoqiang, a Defense Ministry spokesman, acknowledged the test firing.

"It is normal for China to conduct scientific research and tests according to plan," Ren said during the monthly press briefing.

"These tests are not targeted against any country or specific entity," he said. "China follows a defense policy which is defensive in nature and an active defense military strategy, and our development of weapons and equipment is to meet the basic demand of protecting China's national security."

American defense officials disputed the Chinese claim that the test was not targeted at any country and said the missile firing on June 2 coincided with the visit to Asia by then-acting defense secretary Patrick Shanahan.

The test was reported by the Washington Free Beacon on June 13.

Shanahan spoke at a defense conference in Singapore where he indirectly identified China as "the greatest long-term threat" to the vital interests of states in the region for undermining the rules-based international order.

China is engaged in destabilizing actions, what Shanahan termed "a toolkit of coercion," including the deployment of advanced weapons in militarizing disputed areas and threatening to use force to compel rivals.

China also is engaged in influence operations to interfere in the domestic politics of other nations, undermine the integrity of elections, and threaten internal stability. Predatory economics are another feature of Chinese malign activities, along with state-sponsored theft of military and civilian technology.

Shanahan declared that Chinese behavior "that erodes other nations' sovereignty and sows distrust of China’s intentions must end."

Ren's confirmation of the JL-3 was a rare public confirmation of one of the People's Liberation Army's most secret military programs.

American officials said the JL-3 was launched from a submarine test platform in the Bohai Sea and flew several thousand miles to a missile impact range in western China.

Adm. Philip Davidson, commander of the Indo-Pacific Command, said in February that the new JL-3 is being developed for a new class of ballistic missile submarines. The four-star admiral said the JL-3 is part of a strategic nuclear modernization program that is adding new capabilities across the spectrum of nuclear forces.

"China's third generation Type 096 nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine will be armed with JL-3 sea-launched ballistic missiles and will likely begin construction in the early-2020s," Davidson said.

Other new strategic missiles include the new road-mobile DF-26 intermediate-range missile and the new DF41 ICBM.

Rick Fisher, a China military expert, said the disclosure by regime is an example of Beijing practicing "transparency concerning nuclear and missile issues only under duress."

"One conclusion that can be drawn is more official U.S. revelations of Chinese missile tests will force greater transparency on the Chinese Communist dictatorship," said Fisher, a senior fellow at the International Assessment and Strategy Center.

"There is a great deal of information about Chinese military developments that the U.S. intelligence community should keep classified, but consideration should be given to revealing more about missile tests," he added. "Many of these are weapons that China is developing to destroy the democracy in Taiwan, to attack U.S. military forces in Japan and to attack U.S. allies like Japan and South Korea. American citizens deserve to know of this growing danger as do our allies in Asia."

Trump administration officials said earlier this month that the United States would seek to include China in future strategic arms talks aimed at limiting nuclear forces. Chinese officials so far have flatly rejected U.S. appeals.

White House National Security Adviser John Bolton said in a June 18 interview that the concept of bilateral U.S.-Russian arms talks is outdated.

"Cold War style, bilateral strategic arms negotiations don't make sense when you're in a multipolar nuclear world," Bolton said.

Agreements between the United States and Russia, such as the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty that Moscow later violated, limited Washington and Moscow but not Beijing.

"The whole point is to find a way, whether it's in a trilateral negotiation, or maybe you could consider even more nuclear powers involved," he said. "But looking at this as a bipolar nuclear world when it's manifestly a multipolar nuclear world is just conceptually completely backward."

Bolton noted China's reluctance to join arms talks but said the effort should be made because the risks of nuclear arms proliferation spreading to other nations is growing.

The JL-3 is expected to have a range of more than 7,000 miles and likely will be equipped with multiple, independently targetable reentry vehicles.

The June 2 test was the second flight test of the JL-3. The first test took place in December.

The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission stated in one of its recent annual reports that the JL-3 is designed to be more lethal and accurate than the JL-2, the current SLBM. The commission said the JL-3 "will be capable of striking the continental United States from China's periphery."

Ren, the Defense Ministry spokesman, also criticized the Pentagon's recently published Indo-Pacific Strategy that identifies China as a strategic competitor.

"No strategy should go against the times," Ren said. "The trend of the world is mighty and overwhelming. Those who follow it will prosper while those who resist will perish."
 

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China has reportedly been practicing sinking ships with missiles in the South China Sea
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China's Harbin guided-missile destroyer during a week-long China-Russia naval exercise.
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  • The Chinese military has been testing anti-ship missiles in the South China Sea, CNBC reported Monday, citing two US officials familiar with the testing.
  • China reportedly tested "anti-ship ballistic missiles," a possible follow-up to the deployment of anti-ship cruise missiles to the contested waterway last year.
  • The testing of anti-ship ballistic missiles would be a significant first in the South China Sea, although some experts suspect China actually tested anti-ship cruise missiles.

The Chinese military has been practicing sinking enemy vessels with anti-ship naval missiles in the South China Sea, CNBC reported Monday, citing US officials.

The Chinese military reportedly began testing these weapons over the weekend, as a week-long drill kicked off in the disputed waterway. CNBC reports that Chinese forces test-fired anti-ship ballistic missiles (ASBMs), which could include systems like the DF-21D or DF-26.

The testing of ASBMs would be an important first for the South China Sea and a significant step forward as China seeks to strengthen its anti-access, area-denial capabilities, although some expert observers suspect China may have been testing anti-ship cruise missiles.

For ballistic-missile tests, Chinese authorities typically issue Notices to Airmen (NOTAM) identifying "temporary danger areas," Ankit Panda, senior editor at The Diplomat, explained. Such a NOTAM was issued for the period between June 30 and July 1, marking off two locations in the South China Sea.

Beijing previously moved land-based anti-ship cruise missiles (ASCMs), such as the YJ-62 and YJ-12B, to Chinese-occupied territories in the region, a move the US condemned.

"China's militarization of artificial features in the South China Sea includes the deployment of anti-ship missiles, surface-to-air missiles, electronic jammers, and more recently, the landing of bomber aircraft," Jim Mattis, the former secretary of defense, explained last year. "Despite China's claims to the contrary, the placement of these weapons systems is tied directly to military use for the purposes of intimidation and coercion."

Range limits require ASCMs be on islands in the South China Sea in order to reach surrounding waterways. Longer-range ASBMs could be fired from the Chinese mainland, allowing for more robust defenses around the batteries.

China argues that relevant deployments are a necessary response to aggressive US behavior.

China's latest testing comes on the heels of joint drills in the South China Sea involving the USS Ronald Reagan carrier strike group and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's Escort Flotilla 1, which includes the Izumo multi-purpose destroyer that is slated to become Japan's first carrier in decades.

US officials told CNBC that while the US Navy has ships in the South China Sea, the missile testing did not endanger any US ship. The testing was, however, characterized as "concerning."

Locked in competition with great power rivals, the US is looking more closely at the development of anti-ship capabilities as it prepares to counter near-peer threats, such as the massive Chinese navy.

Both the Army and the Marine Corps, for example, are looking at long-range artillery and shore-based anti-ship missile batteries to control the maritime space from land.

"You can imagine a scenario where the Navy feels that it cannot get into the South China Sea because of Chinese naval vessels," Mark Esper, the former secretary of the Army who is now acting secretary of defense, explained earlier this year.

"We can, from a fixed location, on an island or some other place, engage enemy targets, naval targets, at great distances and maintain our standoff and yet open the door, if you will, for naval assets or Marine assets," Esper said.

 

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Chinese nuclear submarine spotted on surface close to Taiwan-held Matsu islands
07 July 2019

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A nuclear-powered submarine of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy, suspected Shang-class nuclear attack submarine, has been spotted by the Taima Star ferry during a routine passage from the Matsu Islands to Keelung.

Passengers and crew of the Taima Star ferry said the submarine rose to the surface, and that it was moving north toward China.

The submarine was seen at around 1:15 p.m. on Thursday (July 4). The first sailor onboard the Taima Star ferry to catch a glimpse of the sub said he thought his eyes were playing tricks on him, reports the Liberty Times (LTN).

The nationality of the submarine was not clearly marked, but it was later confirmed as being of Chinese origin. It was moving in a northeasterly direction, heading toward China’s Zhejiang Province, says the news agency.

A Chinese submarine spotted on surface close to Taiwan-held Matsu Islands appears to be an improved Type 093G Shang-class nuclear-propelled submarines that can fire the latest vertically launched anti-ship missiles.

Maritime specialist Collin Koh, a research fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), tweeted Saturday morning that: “The PLA Navy submarine spotted on surface close to Taiwan-held Matsu Islands appears to be a Type-093G Shang-class SSN, not Type-039 Yuan-class SSK based on the silhouette of its sail.”

Type 093G subs, according to military analysts, are reportedly comparable to U.S. Navy’s Los Angeles-class Flight I and the more advanced Flight III variants in terms of stealthiness.

Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense (MND) did not address the incident in depth. Officials said only that they were fully aware of China’s activities in the area.

Later, Taiwan’s MND has reported that it monitors the country’s surrounding waters and airspace closely at all times after a Chinese submarine was allegedly spotted operating near one of Taiwan’s offshore islands earlier in the day.

Without directly confirming or denying the submarine’s alleged presence near Taiwan’s outlying island, an MND statement said the military will continue to keep a close eye on Taiwan’s sea and land to ensure its security and will take all necessary responsive measures accordingly if needed.

 

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Local tech Helps China increase Early Warning Aircraft Efficiency
July 8, 2019

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China's KJ-2000 AEW aircraft

A locally-developed technology has enabled Chinese aerial early warning (AEW) aircraft such as the KJ-200, KJ-500 and KJ-2000 to increase electromagnetic resources efficiency.

Developed by Tang Xiaobin, a senior scientist at the state-owned China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC), the technology works by separating different electromagnetic energies into two categories: One that boosts certain capabilities, and one that hinders certain capabilities, Global Times said, quoting a report from the
Chinese Science and Technology Daily.

The efficiency of electromagnetic resources in electronic warfare has always been reduced due interferences between strong radiation antennae and other equipment.

Previously, these problems would be solved one by one which is a time consuming effort and is also not recommended for AEW aircraft. Tang has remedied these shortcomings in the new designs.

The methodology helped Chinese AEW aircraft enjoy a 50 percent increase in electromagnetic resources utility efficiency compared with mainstream US AEW aircraft, the report said.

“The AEW aircraft could face strong electromagnetic interference from enemy forces, and this methodology could help protect aircraft systems from such attacks without having compatibility problems of its own,” Wei Dongxu, a Beijing-based military analyst, told the Global Times on Sunday.

“Thanks to this, China's AEW aircraft are more reliable (than US ones). The method will make the best of its electromagnetic resources, retaining its maximum detection and communication capabilities,” Wei added.

 

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PLA's Alleged S. China Sea Missile Tests Sent US Message That 'It's Too Late to Catch Up' - Report
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In early July, the Pentagon accused China of conducting multiple anti-ship ballistic missile tests in the South China Sea in late June. The Chinese military confirmed that it had issued a Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) warning in several areas, but insisted that it was conducting live fire drills, not testing missiles.

If they took place, China's alleged missile tests in an area of the South China Sea closed off by a NOTAM warning from June 29 and July 3 were designed to send several messages to the United States, defence analyst and The Diplomat senior editor Ankit Panda has argued.

In an op-ed published in the South China Morning Post on Sunday, Panda said the suspected tests, likely involving either the DF-21D 'carrier killer' medium-range missile or the anti-ship variant of the DF-26 intermediate-range missile, were meant to convey to the US that China was prepared to use its growing military capabilities "to hold at risk American naval assets in the disputed waters off its course."

Specifically, he suggested, Chinese advancements in the field of anti-ship missiles, even if they are armed with a conventional payload, may serve to "cancel out the expeditionary advantage the United States has long enjoyed."
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The Chinese Dongfeng-21D medium-range ballistic missile.

Furthermore, the suspected public demonstration of these capabilities over a sea area, as opposed to the land-based testing China normally engages in, may be meant to deter the US from keeping its vulnerable carrier groups in the region in the first place (the DF-21D and DF-26 have estimated range characteristics of 1,500km and 4,000km, respectively).

Also, "one of the messages the rocket force may have sought to convey is that it is already too late for the United States to catch up in a meaningful way," Panda wrote.

It was telling, according to the analyst, that the US reaction to the alleged tests was "unusually muted," with "limited criticism and concern seeping out via multiple press reports."

Indeed, on July 2, in an official statement on the missile launch claims, a Pentagon spokesman said only that China's actions were "contrary to its claim to want to bring peace to the region," and that "coercive acts" like these were "meant to intimidate" Beijing's maritime neighbours.

Ultimately, Panda suggested that although China's "capability demonstration" would not be enough to deter Washington from engaging in its 'freedom of navigation' operations in the strategically important region, the tests did "underscore that a new strategic reality is taking shape in the South China Sea."

China maintains that it did not engage in any missile testing in the South China Sea. On July 5, a spokesperson from the country's defence ministry said that the military's southern theatre command had "arranged live ammunition firing drills in waters near Hainan Island in accordance with annual exercise arrangements," but stressed that the reports of missile testing "do not accord with the facts."

The situation in the South China Sea has been a major source of tensions between Beijing and Washington. China has overlapping territorial claims in the sea territory with countries including the Philippines, Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia, and Indonesia, as well as Taiwan. The US, meanwhile, has undertaken regular 'freedom of navigation' missions involving US warships to demonstrate that Washington doesn't accept China's claims to the territory.

The South China Sea is a major global strategic passageway, with over $5 trillion in maritime cargo passing through the area each year (including much of China's oil imports). Geologists also believe the area contains major untapped reserves of oil and gas. China has de facto control over the vast majority of the islands, reefs and shoals in the sea, and has promoted regional and bilateral negotiations without US involvement to resolve conflicting territorial and economic claims.

 

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04.16.2019 Dalian China...The new & unnamed PLAN aircraft carrier,CV-17, receives a fresh coating of "non-skid" for the flight deck.











 

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Chinese President and Central Military Commission Chairman Xi Jinping inspects the honor guards of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy before boarding the destroyer Xining at a pier in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, on April 23, 2019. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, is here to review a naval parade staged to mark the 70th founding anniversary of the PLA Navy. (Xinhua/Li Gang)



The honor guards of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy stand in formation before a naval parade staged to mark the 70th founding anniversary of the PLA Navy at a pier in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, on April 23, 2019. (Xinhua/Li Gang)





A new type of nuclear submarine of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy is reviewed during a naval parade staged to mark the 70th founding anniversary of the PLA Navy on the sea off Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, on April 23, 2019. (Xinhua/Li Ziheng)



Aerial photo taken on April 23, 2019 shows the landing ship Wuzhishan of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy on the sea off Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province. A naval parade was staged here to mark the 70th founding anniversary of the PLA Navy on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Ju Zhenhua)



The guided-missile destroyer Taiyuan of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy is reviewed during a naval parade staged to mark the 70th founding anniversary of the PLA Navy on the sea off Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, on April 23, 2019. (Xinhua/Li Ziheng)



The guided-missile destroyer Guiyang of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy is reviewed during a naval parade staged to mark the 70th founding anniversary of the PLA Navy on the sea off Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, on April 23, 2019. (Xinhua/Guo Xulei)



Aerial photo taken on April 23, 2019 shows the landing ship Culaishan of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy on the sea off Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province. A naval parade was staged here to mark the 70th founding anniversary of the PLA Navy on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Wu Haoyu)



Aerial photo taken on April 23, 2019 shows the hospital ship Peace Ark of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy on the sea off Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province. A naval parade was staged here to mark the 70th founding anniversary of the PLA Navy on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Ju Zhenhua)



Aerial photo taken on April 23, 2019 shows the comprehensive supply ship Hulunhu of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy on the sea off Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province. A naval parade was staged here to mark the 70th founding anniversary of the PLA Navy on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Wu Haoyu)
 

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A maintenance man assigned to an air assault brigade with the PLA airborne troops loads ammunitions onto an attack helicopter prior to a round-the-clock live-fire flight training exercise focusing on stealthy penetration, formation assault and other combat operations in the hinterland of the Dabie Mountains of central China’s Hubei Province in mid-April, 2019. (eng.chinamil.com.cn/Photo by Deng Xiaoning and Xuan Shihao)



A pilot assigned to an air assault brigade with the PLA airborne troops navigates his attack helicopter during a round-the-clock live-fire flight training exercise in the hinterland of the Dabie Mountains of central China’s Hubei Province in mid-April, 2019. (eng.chinamil.com.cn/Photo by Deng Xiaoning and Xuan Shihao)



A Z-9 attack helicopter attached to an air assault brigade with the PLA airborne troops flies at ultra-low altitude in preparation for a defense penetration operation during a round-the-clock live-fire flight training exercise in the hinterland of the Dabie Mountains of central China’s Hubei Province in mid-April, 2019. (eng.chinamil.com.cn/Photo by Deng Xiaoning and Xuan Shihao)



A Z-9 attack helicopter attached to an air assault brigade with the PLA airborne troops fires aircraft guns at simulated targets during a round-the-clock live-fire flight training in the hinterland of the Dabie Mountains of central China’s Hubei Province in mid-April, 2019. (eng.chinamil.com.cn/Photo by Deng Xiaoning and Xuan Shihao)



A WZ-10 attack helicopter attached to an air assault brigade with the PLA airborne troops lands at a parking apron during a round-the-clock live-fire flight training exercise in the hinterland of the Dabie Mountains of central China’s Hubei Province in mid-April, 2019. (eng.chinamil.com.cn/Photo by Deng Xiaoning and Xuan Shihao)
 

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