Product category: Batteries and Chargers
News Release from: Saft Lithium Battery Division
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 02 November 2005
Target acquisition system uses Li-ion
battery pack
A US Army guided missile, target acquisition system is using a lithium-ion battery pack supplied by Saft.
Saft has delivered its 300th advanced lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery pack to provide battlefield power for the US Army's Tube-Launched, Optically Tracked, Wire-guided Missile (TOW) Improved Target Acquisition System (ITAS), designed and produced by Raytheon Network Centric Systems The rechargeable 28V battery packs, based on Saft high energy VLE series cylindrical cells and incorporating electronic control systems and health monitoring software, are deployed widely in US Army missions such as 'Operation Enduring Freedom'
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 18 Aug 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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