29.12.2014 - 01:55 [ PR Newswire ]

First U.S. Army missile-fighting radar blimp airborne on East Coast

For the first time, the U.S. Army lofted a blimp equipped with a new cruise-missile and drone-fighting radar system high above rural Maryland. The system, made by Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) and known as JLENS, consists of two helium-filled aerostats, or tethered blimps, that float 10,000 feet above the ground and carry powerful radars.