According to Flight global, the 44
operators of United States JLENS Army aerostat—based radar surveillance system
has already been certificated to operate and maintain the system, in the anticipation
of the first planned deployment end of this year.
Raytheon's JLENS System (joint
land attack cruise missile defense elevated netted sensor) – which consists of
two aerostats one with fire control radar and the other one with surveillance
radar — will be deployed at Aberdeen Proving Grounds Maryland, as its first
operational deployment.
The said tethered aerostats sit
at 10,000ft, it can survey an area of 550km, so will monitor National Capital
Region (NCR) —includes Washington, DC — keeping watch for unmanned air
vehicles, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and rockets.
“The creation of the site is on—going
at Aberdeen Proving Grounds,” says Raytheon’s JLENS programme manager Doug
Burgess. He adds that surveillance radar will be the first to deploy, followed
by fire control radar—mounted aerostat some months later. Burgess explains the
operation of the JLENS to monitor NCR comes under a three—year exercise being
run by government and NORTHCOM.
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