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News Source Record

# News Source Record

**L-Ne / Open-source news extract** — Original media coverage of unmanned aerial systems.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Collection date | 18 December 2012 |
| Platform | Quiet Systems |
| Data label | Open-source news record // LRRK collection product |
| Handling | Public-source material. Image rights require separate verification before publication. |
| Scale | National |
| Language | Japanese |
| Terms matched | 無人飛行機 |

## Bibliographic

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Outlet | Nihon Keizai Shimbun (日本経済新聞) |
| Title | 大規模災害を監視する無人飛行機　JAXA開発へ |
| Dateline | — |
| First publisher | yes |
| Original URL | https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXNASGG0702L_Y2A211C1MM0000/ |
| Archive URL | — |
| Dedup key | 2012-12-18|nikkei|jaxa-saigai-kanshi-mujin-hikoki |
| Source grade | B1 |

## Record

**Verified extract — [Fact — B1]** Nikkei reported JAXA would, around FY2014, start developing a large unmanned aircraft able to fly three days on one fuel load. Length about 15 metres — the largest Japanese-made of its kind. A high-efficiency engine plus a larger airframe would allow surveillance of large disaster sites and from high altitude, which earlier Japanese unmanned aircraft could not do. Main technology research would finish by FY2017, with practical use aimed around 2022. Visible text names natural disasters, volcanic eruptions and large fires as target missions. (Remainder of the article was paywalled on the fetched page and is not used.)

**Kinematic object.** Planned JAXA large unmanned aircraft (~15 m, 3-day endurance) for disaster surveillance

**Coverage frame.** industry

## Source integrity

- Why this is treated as an original
- Wire reprint status: Nikkei original. Paywall truncated the fetch; only the visible paragraph is used.
- What was excluded

- Visible body was fetched from the live URL. Date 18 December 2012 is the date the search snippet quoted from this page’s own timestamp (“2012年12月18日 13:00”).
- Excluded all paywalled text not returned by the fetch.

## LRRK relevance

Lab / Kestrel. Japanese civil HALE unmanned aircraft for disaster ISR.

*LRRK — security assurance for systems that sense, move, and act.*

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