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SKYEYE - 360° Airframe Integrated Sky & Land Awareness Radar

As a general trend of products getting more specific, sub-systems getting more integrated and components are getting more blended; the traditional distinction between Airframe and Mission Equipment is destined to evolve into an integrated path. Today, Awacs platforms are consist of a carrier flight body, and the mission equipment attached on it. So what is the next phase?
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In modern aviation; mission-specific requirements often lead unorthodox airframe designs, which cause terrible flight dynamics as a trade off. Yet, thanks to Advanced Flight Computers, these unorthodox airframes can still perform flight by overcoming the performance issues.
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SKYEYE is an 360° omnidirectional, un-manned, Air & Ground Awareness Platform; designed as the next generation AWACS, blending its fuselage and radar into single unit. It dedicates its whole sides to air-radar, and bottom of the fuselage to ground-radar systems, un-disturbed from the rest of the fuselage or wings. Flight surfaces, landing gears, exhaust are all placed above airframe not to disrupt radar systems.
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Maybe all said above is a set of excuses just to reason designing a Flying Saucer
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Notes: 
The Unimog model is downloaded from GrabCad user "Kasidaje P." 
The Jet Engine model is downloaded from GrabCad user "Haktan Yağmur"

Compact size of the drone enables easier ground service.

Compact size of the drone enables easier ground service.

Blue: Air-Radar Ring, scanning 360° horizontally.
Green: Ground-Radar Dome, scanning below.

Blue: Air-Radar Ring, scanning 360° horizontally.
Green: Ground-Radar Dome, scanning below.

The Mission Radar and The Carrier Airplane are blended into single dedicated unit.

The Mission Radar and The Carrier Airplane are blended into single dedicated unit.