About/History of Stephan Sabath

Grown up in a company for aerial target drones, Stephan Sabath has been very early a UAV test pilot for "TOPP Fernlenkkoerper- und Modellflug GmbH" in Iserlohn/Germany, well known for the german aerial target drone KZD-II (Klein-Ziel-Drohne). The target drone was  designed for the Flak 20mm Anti-Aircraft cannon. In the year 1985, he was German's youth master in F3A aerobatics.

During his military duty, he was a KZD manual pilot ("Drohnenlenker").

For a 2 years Belgian Forces firing exercises at NAMFI (Nato Missile Firing Installation/Crete) he was TOPP's responsible systems engineer for the conversion from KZD-II to the "Aerial Target Drone II".  28 ATD-II Aerial targets were shot down by French Matra "Mistral" missiles.

For some reasons of import protection, the Belgian Forces assembled their own Aerial Targets - TOPP Fernlenkoerper- und Modellflug GmbH had to close the company.

In a second trial to establish UAV systems technology to an industrial level Stephan Sabath has been a sub-supplier for Rheinmetall Defense/Bremen. In this project a 2/3 scale TUCAN UAV was produced including molds and complete integration of avionics, recovery system, engine for the German LUNA Award.

 

In addition, he was the manual UAV test pilot. But the German company EMT awarded the contract.  Today he is developing his own UAV' systems.