Teng Yun / Cloud Rider
Taiwan's indigenous larger UAV development programme, with officially documented prototype activity and unresolved current acceptance details.
- Country / region
- Taiwan
- Programme status
- Development / trials
- Sources reviewed
- 20 Sept 2026
- Primary domain
- Air
- System type
- Reconnaissance aircraft
- Developer / manufacturer
- National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST)
- Origin / production countries
- Taiwan
- Other names
- Tengyun; Cloud Rider
- Variants / configurations
- Early prototype documented in 2021; later configuration details require current primary confirmation
- Operators / programme customers
- NCSIST development programme; operational acceptance not established
Evidence & current status
Prototype testing is documented. The latest reviewed government assessment is from 2024; current variant and operational acceptance need a newer primary update.
Role & capabilities
- Reconnaissance aircraft
Specifications in context
- Airframe
- Not established from the reviewed public sources.
Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted.
Source ↗ - Launch / recovery
- Not established from the reviewed public sources.
Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted.
Source ↗ - Propulsion
- Not established from the reviewed public sources.
Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted.
Source ↗ - Dimensions
- Not established from the reviewed public sources.
Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted.
Source ↗ - Mass
- Not established from the reviewed public sources.
Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted.
Source ↗ - Endurance
- Not established from the reviewed public sources.
Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted.
Source ↗ - Range
- Not established from the reviewed public sources.
Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted.
Source ↗ - Speed
- Not established from the reviewed public sources.
Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted.
Source ↗ - Altitude
- Not established from the reviewed public sources.
Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted.
Source ↗ - Payload
- Not established from the reviewed public sources.
Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted.
Source ↗ - Sensors
- Not established from the reviewed public sources.
Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted.
Source ↗ - Communications / navigation
- Not established from the reviewed public sources.
Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted.
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