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Arotech Awarded New U.S. Army Battery Contract
Arotech Corp.’s Electric Fuel battery manufacturing subsidiary and the
U.S. Army Communications Electronic Command (CECOM)
have a contract for the delivery of advanced zinc-air
batteries. The contract has a $5.2 million order
ceiling for the delivery of BA-8180/U zinc-air
non-rechargeable batteries.
The BA-8180/U is a 12/24V, 800WHr non-rechargeable
battery pack, approximately the size and weight
of a notebook computer. The battery is based on
30 ampere-hours cells developed by Electric Fuel
over the last five years with partial funding
by CECOM. In extensive field-testing the BA-8180/U
battery typically provided four to six times the
run time of a BA-5590, a primary lithium battery
pack widely used in the military.
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