Китай готовиться провести испытания межконтинентальной баллистической ракеты Julang 2 ("Великая волна"), дальность не менее 9000 км.
Китай собирается разместить JL-2, также известные как CSS-N-4X, на борту нового поколения ядерных субмарин типа 094 , чье строительство начнется в течение следующих нескольких недель, сообщила the Washington Times, цитируя Американские источники.
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China Prepares To Test New ICBM
Beijing (AFP) December 7, 1999 - China will imminently test the Julang 2, an intercontinental sea-to-surface ballistic missile with an estimated range at least 9,000 kilometres (5580 miles) that will boost its nuclear deterent capability, foreign military experts in Beijing said Tuesday.
"The test is imminent," said an expert who asked to not be named, but added the missile, capable of hitting any city in the United States and Europe, could be equipped with a small nuclear warhead.
According to Monday's Washington Times newspaper, the transit of Chinese Golf class submarines from southern areas to the north of the country, carried out last month, signals the approach of the JL-2 test.
The newspaper also put the range of the Jl-2 at nearly 12,000 kilometres.
China's Foreign Ministry downplayed the report Tuesday, and said China was entitled to develop military programs for its own defence, dismissing talk of a "China threat".
"To develop basic national defence capabilities is purely for defence purposes," spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue said at a briefing.
"Some media are advocating the so-called China threat which I don't think will have any result," she added.
The second generation Julang, which translates as "great wave," is the successor to the Julang-1, which was tested successfully in the 1980s from Golf submarines, which are powered by Soviet-made engines, and from the Xia, believed to be the Chinese navy's only nuclear-powered subma…
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