Chinese Type 094 SSBN to go on first patrol later this year

The Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency believes the first Chinese Type 094 SSBN will go on its first patrol later part of this year.

By CSR Report RL33153 China Naval Modernization: Implications for U.S. Navy Capabilities—Background and Issues for Congress by Ronald O’Rourke dated February 28, 2014 (United States Naval Institute News Blog) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

But it is unsure when exactly that will occur.