however, due to the quality of the equipment, the gannet had limited command and control capability, built as it was around the an/aps-20 s-band search radar and an/apx-7 iff set, connected to the an/art-28 "bellhop" datalink. the datalink would transmit the information received through the gannet's onboard systems to the operations room on the aircraft carrier (or whichever ship was charged with directing the gannet's operations), which would then act accordingly to any threat presented. however, the gannet had no onboard computer or processing equipment (unlike the contemporary e-2b hawkeye), which meant that the observers had to interpret the raw radar signal.