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Article: China test-fires new submarine-launched missile.
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- Yomiuri Shimbun
- Article date:
- June 17, 2005
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TOKYO _ China test-fired a new long-range, submarine-launched ballistic missile Thursday, Japanese government sources said Friday.
The new missile is believed to be the Ju Lang-2, a modified version of the intercontinental ballistic missile Dong Feng-31 that has a range of about 8,000 kilometers.
The new SLBM was believed to be fired from a nuclear submarine in waters off Qingdao and touched down in a desert in China several thousand kilometers away.
It has been confirmed that China test-fired an SLBM in 2001.
China is believed to possess about 30 ICBMs and has been conducting research on multiple-warhead missiles to counter the U.S. ...