The first upgraded Lockheed EC-130H Compass Call Baseline-2 electronic warfare -aircraft was redelivered to the 55th Electronic Combat Group (ECG), at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, on February 20. The upgrade package was designed by the US Air Force's Big Safari programme office, a specialist in classified projects, and Air Force Material Command's 661st Aeronautical Systems Squadron based in Waco, Texas. It includes improved satellite and data link communications, with an antenna radome over the forward fuselage, and new 'plug and play' quick reaction capability mission systems, giving the aircraft what the 55th ECG's commander, Colonel Marty Reynolds, calls a 'fifth generation electronic attack capability'.
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