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Cobham to Supply Spanish Armed Forces With Three Additional EOD Robots

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Friday, August 19th, 2011

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Cobham announced recently that is has been awarded a contract by the Spanish armed forces to provide three more units of the telerob Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) robot tEODor, finalizing a ten year purchasing program of advanced bomb disposal technology within the Spanish military. The Spanish Army now operates the world's fourth largest fleet of tEODor type robots, featuring 27 systems in total, the company added. Britain's Cobham acquired Germany's Telerob, a privately-owned manufacturer of bomb disposal robots and threat…

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