Aircraft
AEW debutantes
IAI’s Conformal Airborne Early Warning aircraft, top right, arrives at Farnborough for its first public appearance.

IAI’s Conformal Airborne Early Warning aircraft, top right, arrives at Farnborough for its first public appearance. Underneath all the bulges and fairings lurks a Gulfstream G550 bizjet airframe, which has been heavily modified to carry the conformal arrays for the Elta EL/M-2085 airborne early warning radar.

The first G550 CAEW entered service with the Israel Air and Space Force in February, followed by the second of three in May. In IASF service the aircraft is known as the Eitam.