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IAI is displaying a model of its latest special-mission Gulfstream variant at the Singapore Airshow. While earlier IAI special-mission Gulfstreams have been based on the G550, the Ellyon is believed to be the first to be based on the G600 airframe.
Earlier G550 versions were used for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (ISR), aerial ground surveillance (AGS), and airborne early warning (AEW), with the Republic of Singapore Air Force as an operator of the latter.
In addition to a change of platform, the Ellyon now packs multiple capabilities into a single aircraft. Externally, the aircraft has the familiar slab-sided fuselage fairings and bulbous nose, aft fuselage, and fin-tip radomes of earlier AEW and AGS models, but it adds a ventral fairing that houses further mission equipment principally associated with the ISR role.
Thanks to the miniaturization of electronics and advances in automation, the Ellyon can conduct AEW, ISR, signals intelligence, command and control (C2), and electronic attack/jamming roles. The display model features a central cabin area with six operator consoles, a forward area equipped with four seats, and additional screens that could act as a C2 hub.
An IAI spokesman told AIN that the platform already has customers but declined to elaborate. The company also offers a range of special-mission fits for other platforms, including Bombardier’s Global 6000/6500 and Challenger.

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