{"id":4763,"date":"2019-06-24T20:53:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T20:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4763"},"modified":"2019-06-24T20:53:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T20:53:43","slug":"did-china-conduct-the-first-test-flight-of-its-new-jl-3-slbm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2019\/06\/24\/did-china-conduct-the-first-test-flight-of-its-new-jl-3-slbm\/","title":{"rendered":"DID CHINA CONDUCT THE FIRST TEST FLIGHT OF ITS NEW JL-3 SLBM?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/06\/Did-China-conduct-the-first-test-flight-of-its-new-JL-3-SLBM-1-770x410.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4764\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/06\/Did-China-conduct-the-first-test-flight-of-its-new-JL-3-SLBM-1-770x410.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/06\/Did-China-conduct-the-first-test-flight-of-its-new-JL-3-SLBM-1-770x410.jpg 770w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/06\/Did-China-conduct-the-first-test-flight-of-its-new-JL-3-SLBM-1-770x410-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/06\/Did-China-conduct-the-first-test-flight-of-its-new-JL-3-SLBM-1-770x410-768x409.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/06\/Did-China-conduct-the-first-test-flight-of-its-new-JL-3-SLBM-1-770x410-560x298.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/06\/Did-China-conduct-the-first-test-flight-of-its-new-JL-3-SLBM-1-770x410-260x138.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/06\/Did-China-conduct-the-first-test-flight-of-its-new-JL-3-SLBM-1-770x410-160x85.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Several imageries and eyewitness accounts indicate that China likely conducted a missile launch on 2 June. Our colleagues from East Pendulum analyze the open source information and explain why the test could have involved the country\u2019s next-generation submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), the JL-3.<\/p>\n<p>This article was first published in French language by East Pendulum<\/p>\n<p>There was a time when China\u2019s first nuclear-powered submarine, known as Type 09II, was forced to take off without its strategic JL-1 submarine launched ballistic missile (SLBM) because of considerable delay in its development. The successor of the latter, the JL-2, has achieved little better and experienced a series of unfortunate events as well: The failure of its validation flight in April 2009, which forced the manufacturer (CALT) to review parts of the design while extending the development by 3 years, while the Type 09IV nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) was already in operation since 2008. Will the JL-3, the third generation of the Chinese SLBM, perpetuate this annoying \u201ctradition\u201d ?<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/www.navalnews.com\/naval-news\/2019\/06\/did-china-conduct-the-first-test-flight-of-its-new-jl-3-slbm\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several imageries and eyewitness accounts indicate that China likely conducted a missile launch on 2 June. Our colleagues from East Pendulum analyze the open source information and explain why the test could have involved the country\u2019s next-generation submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), the JL-3. This article was first published in French language by East Pendulum There&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2019\/06\/24\/did-china-conduct-the-first-test-flight-of-its-new-jl-3-slbm\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DID CHINA CONDUCT THE FIRST TEST FLIGHT OF ITS NEW JL-3 SLBM?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-industry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4765,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4763\/revisions\/4765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}