
The Army’s A Battery, 3rd Air Defense Artillery were recently certified to operate Raytheon’s [RTN] Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensors (JLENS) radar to protect the National Capital Region (NCR) from cruise missiles and drone threats. JLENS is a system of two 74-meter aerostats, or tethered blimps, that float 10,000 feet in the air. The helium filled aerostats, each nearly as long as a football field, carry powerful radars that can protect a territory roughly the size…