China Unveiled A Naval Version of The Guizhou WZ-7 ‘Soaring Dragon’ High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) Recon Drone

Built by the Guizhou Aircraft Industry Corporation, outside analysis considered the original Air Force version of WZ-7’s role is similar to the US Air Force‘s Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk, a long range drone capable of providing Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) capability. On January 1st, the Japanese Ministry of Defense confirmed that a Chinese WZ-7 passed through the