Huge Blimps Over Washington D.C.

Pentagon To Deploy Huge Blimps Over Washington, DC For 360-Degree Surveillance -- RT

A pair of high-tech Army blimps is coming to the greater Washington, DC area, and soon they will be able to provide the military with surveillance powers that spans hundreds of millions of acres from North Carolina to Niagara Falls, Canada.

The airships are part of Raytheon’s Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System, or JLENS, and when all is said and done they’ll offer the United States military what the defense contractor calls “an affordable elevated, persistent over-the-horizon sensor system” that relies on “a powerful integrated radar system to detect, track and target a variety of threats.”

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US Army soldiers test JLENS in real-world scenarios -- Wall Street Journal
A Fleet of Blimps Will Soon Serve as a Missile Shield Over Washington -- Gizmodo
New Surveillance Blimp Stays Aloft For 30 Days Straight -- Popular Science
Look! Up in the sky! It's an antimissile blimp! -- CNet
JLENS, the Military Surveillance Airship, Is Ready for Action -- Popular Mechanics