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Article: Videos: Cruise Missile Defense Capabilities Within Reach.
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- Defense & Aerospace Week
- Article date:
- September 9, 2009
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The U.S. Army's Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Sensor (JLENS) System, which uses aerostats to elevate sensors for long-range target detection and tracking for superior land-attack cruise missile defense, demonstrated its first flight today during a ceremony in Elizabeth City, N.C.
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This flight reflects the maturity and operability of the JLENS platform -- an aerostat platform that features long-duration, wide-area, over-the-horizon detection and tracking of low-altitude cruise missiles. Its capabilities provide battlefield commanders with enhanced ...