BAE Systems starts moving Compass Call EW system to Gulfstream business jet

BAE Systems said it started work switching its Compass Call electronic warfare system from the Lockheed EC-130H to a modified Gulfstream G550, an EC-37B aircraft. Gulfstream Aerospace is in the process of removing unneeded commercial components from a G550 business jet in Savannah, Ga. Officials of the BAE Systems Electronics Systems segment in Nashua, N.H., say they anticipate the first two aircraft to be fielded with the new electronic warfare (EW) gear in 2023. BAE Systems has been keen to emphasize that the EC-37B aircraft will weigh 50 percent less and cost 50 percent less to operate. The aircraft also flies higher, faster, and further than its Cold War predecessor.