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In the latest sign of trouble with the Army’s radar-carrying JLENS blimps, tests have found that the system had trouble conveying accurate, timely information about potential airborne threats, according to a new report by the Pentagon’s testing arm.
Feb. 26, 2016
Unknown to most Americans, the Pentagon has spent $2.7 billion developing a system of giant radar-equipped blimps to provide an early warning if the country were ever attacked with cruise missiles, drones or other low-flying weapons.
Sept. 24, 2015
The spectacle of a giant military blimp wreaking havoc across two mid-Atlantic states this week has prompted congressional leaders to question the worth of a long troubled missile-defense program known as JLENS.
Oct. 30, 2015
The Pentagon has suspended indefinitely a trial run of the troubled missile defense system called JLENS, whose giant, radar-carrying blimps were intended to help safeguard the skies over Washington.
Nov. 3, 2015
One of the two JLENS blimps that has been surveilling the East Coast from Maryland has broken free of its mooring and is now drifting over Pennsylvania, authorities said.
Oct. 28, 2015
The Pentagon’s glitch-prone, $2.7-billion system of radar-equipped blimps — designed to safeguard the nation’s capital against cruise missiles and other airborne threats — has long been a source of frustration to military leaders.
Nov. 30, 2015
Two U.S. senators with sway over all federal spending have dealt a crippling bipartisan blow to the Pentagon’s troubled $2.7-billion program to use radar-carrying blimps to search for enemy missiles.
March 12, 2016
The military’s long-troubled program to use massive, radar-carrying blimps for missile defense has suffered another setback — the loss of three-fourths of its expected funding.
Dec. 18, 2015
The blimp that broke loose from an Army facility in Maryland last fall, wreaking havoc with its milelong tether, flew uncontrolled for hours because someone neglected to put batteries in its automatic-deflation device, Pentagon investigators have found.
Feb. 14, 2016