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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 | 3 December 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 SYSTEMS; unmanned aircraft; Predator; Global Hawks; UAV |

## Bibliographic

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Outlet | Grand Forks Herald |
| Title | UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS: Another UAV firm comes to GF |
| Dateline | Grand Forks, North Dakota |
| First publisher | yes |
| Original URL | https://www.newspapers.com/image/1133170457/?terms=unmanned+aerial |
| Archive URL | — |
| Dedup key | 2010-12-03|grand-forks-herald|simlat-uav-training-office-gf |
| Source grade | A1 |

## Record

**Verified extract — [Fact — A1]** Tu-Uyen Tran, Herald staff writer, reported that Simlat, a fledgling Israeli company specializing in training unmanned aircraft operators (15 employees), was opening its second office in Grand Forks. Local airspace already had CBP Predators and was soon expected to receive National Guard Predators and Air Force Global Hawks. Simlat, started 2004, had customers in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia and India.

**Kinematic object.** Predator (CBP / forthcoming Guard); Global Hawk; Simlat UAS trainers.

**Coverage frame.** industry / military

## Source integrity

Staff byline. Not a wire. OCR from Newspapers.com page image.

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