Pentagon suspends troubled missile defense system at center of 'runaway blimp'

Los Angeles Times | November 3, 2015 | 5:08 PM

The Pentagon has suspended indefinitely an “operational exercise” of the troubled missile defense system called JLENS, whose giant, radar-carrying blimps were intended to help safeguard the skies over Washington.
Any decision over whether to resume the exercise will wait until after the Army’s Combat Readiness Center completes an investigation into how one of the pilotless blimps broke away from its mooring station last week at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.
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