China has put longer-range ICBMs on its nuclear subs, U.S. says

China has fielded new, longer-range ballistic missiles on its six nuclear-powered submarines, permitting it to hit the continental U.S. from a lot nearer to its personal shores, the U.S. acknowledged publicly for the primary time Friday.

China’s six Jin-class submarines at the moment are “geared up with JL-3 intercontinental ballistic missiles,” Adm. Sam Paparo, the top of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, advised army reporters at a convention in Washington. “They had been constructed to threaten the USA.”