Army, J-7 to test new sensor with high-altitude balloon in coming days
The Wallabee prototype is set to provide the Army and the J-7 with more intelligence-gathering capabilities in the stratosphere.
Army about to formalize ‘micro-high altitude balloons’ as a new requirement for surveillance ops
The new effort for microHABs is being led by the Army's Program Executive Office for Aviation, Andrew Evans, director of the Army's ISR Task Force, told Breaking Defense, which for the moment is the primary acquisition shop overseeing the service's pursuit of systems that can operate at the upper edges of the stratosphere — roughly between 60,000 and 100,000 feet, and just below orbital space.
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