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Elbit’s Beagle Robot Available Next Year At Budget Prices

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Thursday, October 8th, 2009

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QUANTICO, Va.--The subsidiary in the United States of Israel's Elbit Systems [ESLT] said recently that its new Beagle tactical reconnaissance robot would be in full production early next year and selling at prices about one-sixth the cost of some high-end robots on the market today. "This will be selling at a very low price, about $25,000," Francis Govers, chief engineer at Elbit Systems of America Land Solutions, told sister publication Defense Daily at the Modern Day Marine Expo here. "Compare…

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