After September 11, America is living with the knowledge of the fact that it can be attacked at any moment. And keeping in mind the worst possible scenario, the U.S. military continually improve safety system. Now it is the turn of Washington - he will get defensive airships.
True to name JLENS system from the company «Raytheon» simple airships - so give it a disservice to the military contractor. These flying fortress spy size of a house can identify the threats that will not notice even the most powerful ground-based radars. They can observe and monitor the flying cruise missiles, ships, lay mines, armed drones, and all in fact anything approaching from a distance of several hundred kilometers in a field 360 degrees, and react to it in real time. What perhaps is even more impressive - the system JLENS may be in the air around the clock watching the land base or settlement up to 30 days without refueling or maintenance. Obviously, it is much preferable to an extremely expensive fleet of five spy planes that will be required to perform the same task that performs JLENS less than half the effort.
Somewhere in 2014, the Department of Defense will deploy a couple of airships JLENS over Washington County to oversee the capital of the United States. The system itself consists of two balloons: One of them is equipped with a fire control radar, which provides information for targeting, and the other - the radar observations, which can be seen in all directions. Soaring to a height of three thousand feet above the ground, JLENS will see the area up to the Atlantic Ocean.
Airships have already been successfully tested in Utah and are now on the way to Washington.
When all transactions will be done by the Ministry of Defence will be able to spend up to 700 percent less on system JLENS, than spy planes, and thus receive significantly greater protection against many types of threats.
