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Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor (JLENS) System
The JLENS system enhances wide-area protection against land-attack cruise missiles, while supporting secondary missions.
The Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor (JLENS) is a tactical, theater-based, advanced sensor system. The system is elevated by tethered aerostats to enable battlefield commanders to increase their wide-area protection against land-attack cruise missiles.
JLENS provides the long endurance (up to 30 days on station), over-the-horizon detection and tracking capabilities required to defeat the proliferating cruise-missile threat. This cost-effective system complements fixed-wing assets and reduces the pace of aircrew missions. Its presence in the battle space allows reallocation of costly manned aircraft to support other critical missions. JLENS is a multi-mission system that contributes to the single integrated air picture and supports other secondary missions such as combat identification, communication relays and attack operations.
