WZ-7 Soaring Dragon

WZ-7 Soaring Dragon overview

WZ-7 Soaring Dragon is a Chinese high-altitude strategic ISR UAV with a distinctive joined or tandem-wing arrangement. It is associated with long-range maritime and strategic surveillance rather than publicly listed armament.

Reported open-source figures give a 14.3-m length, 24.9-m span, 5.4-m height, 405-kt speed, 3,780-nm range, and 59,055-ft ceiling. Endurance, payload, weight, and sensor details are not publicly disclosed, limiting assessment of its full mission capacity.

It reportedly entered PLAAF service in 2018, and PLAAF and PLANAF are reported operators. Reporting places it on western-Pacific and Sea-of-Japan surveillance missions, relevant to comparisons of Chinese strategic ISR coverage. For comparison, publicly documented roles and procurement or testing evidence are more reliable than unsupported inference from incomplete specifications, and they should not be treated as confirmation of unreported characteristics.

Armament

Unarmed; strategic reconnaissance payloads