China allegedly has longer range JL-3s on its six Type 094 (NATO designation Jin class) SSBNs. This is according to former naval aviator US Admiral Sam Paparo (Commander US Pacific Fleet) in the Japan Times, November 19, 2022.
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Other sources indicate at least one Type 094 has been modified (as a prototype fitout) to take the JL-3. The JL-3 might be slightly taller and of greater diameter, than already 13m JL-2s. If diameter has been increased then the hitherto 12 silo 094 might have experienced a reduction from 12 x JL-2s to 10 x JL-3s. Other 094s are being considered for similar JL-3 modifications. But full deployment, with 12 to 16 x JL-3s, will likely need to await completion of the Type 096s.
The JL-3 SLBM may have a range of 10,000-12,000km (average to lighter payloads) allowing 094s, in the Chinese protected South China Sea, to hit some of the continental US and all of Australia.
Geography and reputed noisiness of 094s (part owing to their pronounced hump - photo below) restrict them to operating in their near China coast bastions.
If they could operate from a captured Taiwan, then quieter, future (13m beam, slightly humped) Type 096s might be able to operate in the mid Pacific - a launch area that could take in all of the continental US.
