Taiwan News  
Date: 2018/04/13
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

A Teng Yun UAV on show at a Hualien Air Force Base in 2016 (photo courtesy of Hsuan Shih-sheng). (By Wikimedia Commons)

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Taiwan has been testing its domestically made “Teng Yun” (騰雲) or Cloud Rider drones near an Air Force base in sparsely populated Taitung County, the United Daily News reported Friday.

The Teng Yun is a medium-altitude long-endurance Unmanned Aerial Vehicle produced by the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (中科院).

One of the drones was recently spotted flying above the Zhihang (志航) Air Force Base in Taitung County, according to the United Daily News. The newspaper reported that local residents first thought it was a fighter jet because of its large size, but they noted it did not have a cockpit and made a different sound.    [FULL  STORY]