Despite China's repeated warnings, the United States has deployed intermediate-range missiles around China and has placed the location in the Philippines, which is at odds with China. As far as China is concerned, since the verbal warning is ineffective, it can only take other measures to respond to this provocative act of the United States. What's more, the current China is not without countermeasures, what we have is "hard goods". On Thursday, just as the U.S. military announced the deployment of an intermediate-range missile in the Philippines, the U.S. media revealed that a Chinese "Wuzhen-7" appeared in the airspace not far from the Philippines to carry out reconnaissance missions.
According to US media reports, the area where the "Wuzhen-7" was active at that time was located at the northwest end of the South China Sea, which is relatively close to the northern part of the Philippines. It is worth noting that the US military's medium-range missile deployed in the Philippines is located on the island of Luzon in the northern part of the Philippines. Therefore, if the US media's exposure is true, it cannot be ruled out that this "Wuzhi-7" is going to monitor the US military's medium-range missile in the Philippines. If the People's Liberation Army's arsenal is equipped to find a piece of equipment that can monitor US medium-range missiles in the Philippines, the "Wuzhen-7" is undoubtedly very suitable. This advanced UAV, the main thing is a strong reconnaissance capability, compared with the general unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, "no reconnaissance-7" has two very obvious advantages, one is to fly high, the other is a long battery life.
According to foreign media reports, the maximum practical ceiling of the "Wuzhen-7" exceeded 18,000 meters. We often say, "fly high, see far", for unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, the same is true, flying higher, means that you can obtain a wider field of vision, and you will have the opportunity to obtain more and more valuable information. Of course, unmanned reconnaissance planes should also pursue clarity while seeing far away, and this requires unmanned reconnaissance planes to carry all kinds of camera and video equipment to be very advanced. The reconnaissance system of the "Wuzhen-7" is very advanced, and all kinds of reconnaissance equipment are readily available. In addition, flying high means that it has stronger survivability, and ordinary fighters cannot reach the ceiling of the "Wuzhen-7".
As for the long endurance, its tactical significance is even more obvious, flying in the air for a long time, you can perform more missions. According to public information, the endurance of the "Wuzhen-7" exceeds 10 hours, although it is not as perverted as the RQ-4 "Global Hawk" in service in the US Air Force, but it is also very top. You must know that an ordinary unmanned reconnaissance aircraft may be able to perform a mission for 4 to 5 hours when it flies out, but the "Wuzhen-7" can reach more than 10 hours. If two "Wuzhan-7" planes are dispatched to carry out aerial monitoring of a certain area or a certain target, 24-hour all-weather surveillance can be achieved.
Although China has been strongly opposed to the deployment of intermediate-range missiles by the United States in the Indo-Pacific region, it does not mean that China is very afraid of intermediate-range missiles, or that there is no way to use them. Since it cannot persuade the United States, China can only come up with concrete measures to counter this naked provocation of the United States. The appearance of the "Wuzhen-7" in the airspace around the Philippines has already sent a very clear signal to the United States and the Philippines: With regard to the US deployment of medium-range missiles in the Philippines, all developments are under China's control. As long as the United States dares to do things with the medium-range missile system, China will certainly strike hard.