Naval News:
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 Miyako Strait and conducted operations beyond the first island chain. The Southwestern Air Defense Force of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force scrambled F-15Js to intercept and observe the drone as it entered the Japanese Air Defense Identification Zone. It was also the first time that the JASDF scrambled to respond to such high altitude aircraft.
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