China’s New Missile Submarine Can Strike America With Nuclear Weapons and Never Leave Port

China’s New Missile Submarine Can Strike America With Nuclear Weapons and Never Leave Port

Meet China’s New Type 096 Nuclear Missile Submarine China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) is fast-tracking a new class of Type 096 nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarines to operate alongside its existing JIN-class boats into the 2030s and beyond, which greatly expands China’s ability to launch nuclear attacks on the continental United States from the Pacific Ocean. While some experts think the new class of sub might have had a major i…