HARRIER-AWAC: A Collaborative Swarm Architecture for Distributed Airborne Early Warning and Autonomous Kamikaze Intercept Cueing

Author(s)	Mr. Archit Saxena
Country	India
Abstract	Abstract—This paper presents HARRIER-AWAC, a distributed airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) architecture built on a swarm of collaborating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) rather than a single large radar-carrying aircraft. Each swarm node carries a lightweight FMCW (Frequency-Modulated Continuous Wave) radar on a rotating rotodome, and nodes are actively held equidistant from one another, forming a regular geometric pattern with predictable, overlapping detection envelopes. This equidistant geometry gives the swarm a built-in multi-static triangulation capability that a single AWACS aircraft cannot achieve economically. When any node detects an inbound object, the detection is fused across the mesh, classified, and — if declared a threat — cued to the nearest available kamikaze (loitering munition) drone for intercept. This paper describes the aerodynamic platform, radar/rotodome payload, formation-keeping control logic, detection-to-engagement data chain, and the concept of operations (CONOPS) for a scaled demonstrator, and includes system diagrams and representative design-parameter tables. Index Terms—AWACS, UAV swarm, FMCW radar, rotodome, loitering munition, kamikaze drone, distributed sensing, threat cueing, formation flight.
Keywords	HARRIER-AWAC Collaborative Swarm
Field	Engineering
Published In	Volume 8, Issue 5, September-October 2026
Published On	2026-09-16

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