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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 | 25 April 2010 |
| Platform | Quiet Systems |
| Data label | Open-source news record // LRRK collection product |
| Handling | Public-source material. Image rights require separate verification before publication. |
| Scale | Local |
| Language | English |
| Terms matched | unmanned aerial; Predator; Reaper; drones |

## Bibliographic

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Outlet | Daily Press (Newport News / Hampton, Virginia) |
| Title | Growing role for virtual … (480th ISR Wing, Langley) |
| Dateline | Hampton, Virginia |
| First publisher | yes |
| Original URL | https://www.newspapers.com/image/270340819/?terms=%22unmanned%20aerial%22 |
| Archive URL | — |
| Dedup key | 2010-04-25|daily-press|langley-480th-isr-predator-reaper |
| Source grade | A1 |

## Pictures

- page: 2010-04-25-daily-press-langley-480th-isr-page.jpg — https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JRsmfFM6QgWUwW-P0kTpcigqlR1HZZG7/view
- photo 1: 2010-04-25-daily-press-langley-480th-isr-photo-1.jpg — https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K7zgtkege4jaW-YL1SfIviM-AV32XIFc/view
- clips folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1On-WlTNnfFzvc6yhd46XSlX3I6Kuih_-


## Record

**Verified extract — [Fact — A1]** Hugh Lessig of the Daily Press (hlessig@dailypress.com) reported from Hampton that at Langley Air Force Base the prime time for fighting terrorists is when most of Hampton is asleep, 11 p.m. to 7 a.m., because the triggers are computer keyboards and the battlefield is a computer chat room. The 480th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Wing headquarters was booming: years of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan had prompted heavier use of manned and unmanned aerial surveillance and a flood of data requiring more analysts. Every day the 480th was examining 25 to 30 full-motion video lines from Predator and Reaper drones and more than 1,000 additional products. Sidebar: HQ Langley AFB, Hampton; formed as an anti-submarine group in 1943; more than 4,500 airmen, civilians and contractors plus more than 700 Air Reserve; operates and manages $5 billion of intelligence resources. Caption: airmen from the 480th examine data from Predator and Reaper drones daily; a Predator flies above Kandahar Air Field in southern Afghanistan in January (AP file photo). Jump to page 6.

**Kinematic object.** MQ-1 Predator / MQ-9 Reaper FMV feeds processed at Langley 480th ISR Wing.

**Coverage frame.** military

## Source integrity

- Why original: Daily Press staff byline (Hugh Lessig) on the local Langley-based 480th ISR Wing's expanding drone-video analysis mission.
- Wire reprint status: Story is staff-written. The Kandahar Predator photograph is an AP file photo printed on the page.
- OCR / clip caveats: Verified from Newspapers.com full-page scan OCR. Main hed after "Growing role for virtual" was cut by a display letter; locked facts are from the deck, byline, body, and sidebar. Jump page 6 not extracted here.

## LRRK relevance

Watch / Passport. A Watch desk would have logged a CONUS ISR wing processing 25–30 Predator/Reaper FMV lines a night from a Hampton keyboard floor.

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

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