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  {
    "id": "baltic-dusk",
    "title": "Baltic Sea at dusk",
    "author": "Courtesy photograph, U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa, U.S. Sixth Fleet",
    "image": "editorial/baltic-dusk-1400.webp",
    "source": "https://www.dvidshub.net/image/9099189/ships-sail-formation-during-baltops-25",
    "license": "Public domain \u00b7 DVIDS restrictions apply",
    "license_url": "https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright",
    "use": "Archival context from BALTOPS 25, June 2025. Does not depict Vaubren equipment or an endorsement.",
    "modifications": "Resized and encoded as WebP; responsive display crops. No generative alteration."
  },
  {
    "id": "baltops-film",
    "title": "BALTOPS 25 ships in formation",
    "author": "Petty Officer 2nd Class Natalia Kai, U.S. Navy",
    "image": "editorial/baltops-poster.webp",
    "source": "https://www.dvidshub.net/video/967717/baltops-25-ships-formation",
    "license": "Public domain \u00b7 DVIDS restrictions apply",
    "license_url": "https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright",
    "use": "Archival exercise footage from the Baltic Sea, June 2025. Does not depict Vaubren systems.",
    "modifications": "Full visual sequence retained. Re-encoded H.264 for web delivery; audio removed. Poster extracted from the original film."
  },
  {
    "id": "bulgaria",
    "title": "Mountains in Bulgaria",
    "author": "Alex Dimitrov",
    "image": "photography/bulgaria-graded-1400.webp",
    "source": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mountains_in_Bulgaria.jpg",
    "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
    "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "use": "Vrachanski Balkan, Bulgaria. Location photography, not a Vaubren facility.",
    "modifications": "Colour graded to the Vaubren house look, resized and encoded for web delivery; responsive display crops. The adapted image remains under CC BY-SA 4.0. No generative alteration."
  },
  {
    "id": "unmanned-aircraft-dusk",
    "title": "Unmanned aircraft at dusk",
    "author": "Master Sgt. Dillon White, U.S. Air Force (photograph credit in source caption)",
    "image": "editorial/unmanned-aircraft-dusk-1400.webp",
    "source": "https://www.dvidshub.net/image/6030021/mq-9-reaper-and-aircrew-underneath-nevada-sunset",
    "license": "Public domain \u00b7 DVIDS restrictions apply",
    "license_url": "https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright",
    "use": "MQ-9 Reaper at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, November 2019. Archival aviation context; not a Vaubren aircraft or facility.",
    "modifications": "Resized and encoded as WebP; responsive display crops. No generative alteration."
  },
  {
    "id": "field-trial-germany",
    "title": "Unmanned aircraft field trial",
    "author": "Pfc. Brent Lee, U.S. Army",
    "image": "editorial/field-trial-germany-1400.webp",
    "source": "https://www.dvidshub.net/image/8967297/us-army-evaluates-soldier-produced-3d-printed-drone",
    "license": "Public domain \u00b7 DVIDS restrictions apply",
    "license_url": "https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright",
    "use": "Experimental aircraft before a test flight at Hohenfels, Germany, April 2025. Archival engineering context; not Vaubren equipment or a Vaubren trial.",
    "modifications": "Resized and encoded as WebP; responsive display crops. No generative alteration."
  },
  {
    "id": "unmanned-surface-vessel",
    "title": "Unmanned maritime operations",
    "author": "Petty Officer 2nd Class Jacob Vernier, U.S. Navy",
    "image": "editorial/unmanned-surface-vessel-1400.webp",
    "source": "https://www.dvidshub.net/image/8090402/task-force-59-operates-unmanned-systems",
    "license": "Public domain \u00b7 DVIDS restrictions apply",
    "license_url": "https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright",
    "use": "MARTAC T-38 Devil Ray operating in the Arabian Gulf, October 2023. Archival maritime context; not a Vaubren system or deployment.",
    "modifications": "Resized and encoded as WebP; responsive display crops. No generative alteration."
  },
  {
    "id": "cole-electronics",
    "title": "Electronics maintenance aboard USS Cole",
    "author": "Seaman Mark Pena, U.S. Navy",
    "image": "editorial/electronics-cole-1000.webp",
    "source": "https://www.dvidshub.net/image/8769069/electronics-technician-maintenance-aboard-uss-cole",
    "license": "Public domain \u00b7 DVIDS restrictions apply",
    "license_url": "https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright",
    "use": "Contextual engineering photograph, November 2024. Not Vaubren personnel, equipment or facilities.",
    "modifications": "Encoded as WebP with responsive display crops. No generative alteration."
  },
  {
    "id": "baltic-formation",
    "title": "BALTOPS 25 aerial formation",
    "author": "Lance Cpl. John Allen, U.S. Marine Corps",
    "image": "editorial/baltic-formation-2000.webp",
    "source": "https://www.dvidshub.net/image/9105991/baltops-25-aerial-formation",
    "license": "Public domain \u00b7 DVIDS restrictions apply",
    "license_url": "https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright",
    "use": "Royal Air Force Typhoons and U.S. Navy P-8 over the Baltic Sea, June 2025. Archival European defence context, not Vaubren equipment.",
    "modifications": "Encoded as WebP with responsive display crops. No generative alteration."
  }
]