PAPEI Sky Eye 2

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|name=Sky Eye 2
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| type= Coaxial [[unmanned helicopter]]
| national origin= [[China]]
| manufacturer= [http://www.chinaedunet.com/xawjgcxy/index/index.htm People’s Armed Police Engineering Institute (PAPEI)]
| designer= PAPEI
| first flight= February 2006
| introduced= 2006
| retired=
| status= In service
| primary user= [[China]]
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Sky Eye (Tian-Yan or Tianyan, 天眼) 2 is a Chinese [[UAV]] developed by [http://www.chinaedunet.com/xawjgcxy/index/index.htm People’s Armed Police Engineering Institute (PAPEI, 武警工程学院)], and subsequently entered service with [[People's Armed Police]].

Sky Eye 2 is one of the few designs among unmanned helicopters adopting coaxial configuration and the unmanned [[helicopter]] is in [[twin tail]] layout and a pair of skids as landing gear. Sky Eye 2 is completely indigenously developed by PAPEI, including subsystems such as integrated satellite navigational positioning system, which was one of the biggest challenge in the development of Sky Eye 2, and the success lead to the capability of dropping both lethal and none lethal munitions such as small caliber bombs and tear gas rounds. Other indigenously developed subsystems include flight control systems, imaging / data processing and real-time transmission systems / software, which are essential to airborne surveillance missions, the main tasks Sky Eye 2 is designed to perform.<ref>[http://mil.news.sina.com.cn/p/2007-05-11/0709443532.html Sky Eye 2]</ref>

==See also==
[[List of unmanned aerial vehicles of the People's Republic of China]]

==Reference==
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[[Category:Unmanned aerial vehicles]]
[[Category:Unmanned aerial vehicles of China]]
[[Category:Unmanned helicopters]]
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