The Chinese regime is developing a new capability for submarine-launched ballistic missiles, and a U.S. admiral told reporters that he finds the development concerning.
“Any time a nation has developed nuclear weapons and delivery platforms that can range the homeland, it’s a concern of mine,” said Adm. Bill Gortney, commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, during an April 7 Pentagon press briefing.
Gortney said the Chinese regime has already “put to sea their sea-launch ballistic missile submarines,” noting that China may have “three in the water right now.”
The United States is carefully watching the Chinese regime’s submarines and will be deploying a new system to track submarines by fall this year. It will keep tabs on hostile submarines by tailing them with new quiet and robotic Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessels.
Gortney said that even without leaving Chinese waters, the Chinese regime’s ballistic missile subs can already hit U.S. soil. “They can reach Hawaii,” he said, and the “farther east they go, they can reach more and more of our nation.”
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