China launches massive sub missile into Pacific, tells neighbors not to 'overinterpret'
Nothing screams 'just routine training' quite like launching a massive, nuclear-capable submarine missile across the ocean and telling your nervous neighbors to just chill out.
So, China just fired a massive strategic ballistic missile straight into the Pacific Ocean. They used a stealthy nuclear submarine to launch it, and military experts are pretty sure it was the brand-new JL-3. This beast is designed to carry nuclear warheads and has a casual range of over 6,200 miles, which puts basically the entire United States mainland in its crosshairs.
Naturally, Japan freaked out. The missile’s debris zones were mapped dangerously close to Japanese waters. Tokyo tried to politely ask Beijing to, you know, maybe not do that. But the Chinese Foreign Ministry basically shrugged and told everyone to stop overinterpreting a perfectly normal routine.
According to nuclear expert Jeffrey Lewis, the real kicker is that China is completely shifting its old playbook of keeping a low profile and is now actively showing off its modernized nuclear arsenal. They used to rarely test these long-range monsters, but those polite days are officially over.
Keeping a massive nuclear deterrent hidden in the deep ocean only works if everyone knows it can actually fly.
Source: Asia Today
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