This Is How The Army's Loose $2.7 Billion Radar Blimp JLENS Was Supposed To Work

Earlier today the U.S. Army's JLENS radar blimp broke loose, and it's currently floating somewhere over Pennsylvania with fighter jets in tow. It's a sad, comical development for a program that showed much promise but has lately become yet another costly defense boondoggle. From the Foxtrot Alpha archives, here's how the damn thing was supposed to work.