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Germany Tests Bental’s MicroBAT UAV Payload

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Friday, November 21st, 2008

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Israel's Bental Industries Tuesday said that the German Federal Office of Defense Technology and Procurement assigned German UAV manufacturer EMT with testing of the MicroBAT 275, Bental's latest development of a stabilized camera system for lightweight unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). "With the use of Bental's stabilized camera system we hope to improve the picture quality of surveillance flights by our close range unmanned aerial vehicles," Guenter Freiwald, project manager for Close Range UAVs at the German bureau said in a…

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