"Гэнит"AEW.3 на палубе авианосца "Арк Ройял", под крылом самолета - подвесные топливные баки.
The Royal Navy preceded the RAF in adopting aircraft for the AEW role, but when HMS "Ark Royal" was decommissioned and the last Gannet AEW Mk 3 was retired, no AEW replacement was provided.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Fairey Gannet AEW - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1958

The Fairey Gannet AEW Mk 3 - seen in this April 1962 picture about to pick up the arrester wire on HMS “Ark Royal“ - was the first British aircraft developed for the airborne early warning role.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Fairey Gannet AEW - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1958

The second Nimrod AEW Mk 3

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: BAe Nimrod AEW - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1980

The old and the new: Britain's current and future AEW types, both products of the Manchester factories of British Aerospace. The second Nimrod AEW Mk 3 was on a test flight from Woodford when it formated with one of the RAF’s last Shackleton AEW Mk 2s.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Avro Shackleton / Type 696 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1949BAe Nimrod AEW - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1980

Britain's latest airborne early warner: the British Aerospace Nimrod AEW Mk 3, soon to enter service with No 8 Squadron at RAF Waddington.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: BAe Nimrod AEW - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1980

В сущности испытания "Кометы"AEW велись для определения аэродинамических характеристик носовой части перспективного самолета ДРЛО.
The modified Comet 4 serving as a test-bed for the Marconi forward-looking radar in 1977.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: BAe Nimrod AEW - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1980

The only remarkable aspect of this illustration of an AEW Nimrod model is that the model was on the chief designer's desk at Brough in August 1966, eleven years before the programme was launched.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: BAe Nimrod AEW - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1980

The seriousness of this gap in naval defences was starkly demonstrated in the Falklands fighting, and the AEW Sea King was then hastily produced.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Sikorsky H-3 / S-61 Sea King - СШАUSA - 1959

Photographed over Cornwall earlier this year, while serving with "D” Flight of the 824 NAS, this is AEW Sea King (XV650). Since their delivery in 1982, low-visibility insignia have been adopted.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Sikorsky H-3 / S-61 Sea King - СШАUSA - 1959

The AEW Andover's bill-like nose earned the nickname "Toucan", from the chief designer’s well-remembered jibe at the single antenna systems used by the American AEW designs, to the effect that "Toucan do the job better than one can!”

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Hawker-Siddeley Andover / HS.748 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1960

As there were spare Hawker Siddeley Andover C Mk I airframes in the UK around 1966, these were seen as potential land-based AEW platforms. The modifications would have been drastic, however, as the illustration shows, and even involved the substitution of Rolls-Royce Trent turbofans for the two Dart turboprops of the original type, as well as shortening the fuselage, stiffening the structure and fitting slipper tanks on the wings.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Hawker-Siddeley Andover / HS.748 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1960

A proposal which aimed to give the Royal Navy a low-cost AEW type was based on the HS.125 business jet. It could not carry the most suitable radar, and was unable to meet most time-on-station requirements.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Hawker-Siddeley HS.125 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1962

Shackleton AEW.2 WR963. The aircraft carrier is HMS Illustrious, with which No 8 Sqn is twinned.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Avro Shackleton / Type 696 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1949

Specialised AEW designs are characteristically unlovely, and perhaps none more so than the Blackburn/Hawker Siddeley P.139 project of 1963. The shows the T-tail adopted later.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Hawker-Siddeley P.139 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1964

The three-view shows an early variant

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Hawker-Siddeley P.139 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1964