VT Miltope rugged laptop demo from the show Mail Call. Test PC Hardware at http://www.testmygeekstuff.com. VT Miltope is a leading U.S. Manufacturer of rugged computers and computer peripherals for tactical and aviation applications in the military, industrial, and commercial sectors. The VT Miltope arm makes rugged computers and computer peripherals, designed and manufactured in the US, for military, industrial and commercial tactical and aviation applications. Unsubscribe from VT Miltope? Cancel Unsubscribe. Subscribe Subscribed Unsubscribe. Military rugged laptop - DRS LXI with Pentium MMX - RETRO Hardware - Duration: 19:45. VT Miltope has completed qualification testing on a new RCLC-1 rugged convertible laptop computer with a 10.6-inch display that converts to a tablet. Hard drives Hard drive technology has helped the military effectively deal with the problems of size, weight, power and cost of rugged computers on the battlefield.
VT Miltope RPDA-1
Tough, versatile PDA platform for the military
(by Conrad H. Blickenstorfer)
Download hakko others driver manual. The VT Miltope RPDA-1 is a modern, expandable and highly configurable rugged PDA clearly designed for military and other government applications, and in particular for the US Army CHS-4 (Common Hardware Systems-4) program.
Like a lot of computing hardware designed for military purposes, the RDPA-1 combines reasonably current COTS (commercial off the shelf) components, great configuration flexibility, and military standard ports into a unit designed to be compact, light and tough enough to provide real value, situational awareness, and a strategic advantage out there in the field.
What Miltope came up with to meet those demands is a PDA platform large enough to accommodate a 4.1-inch display and the requisite ports and connectors, but not so large as to weigh soldiers down. That said, the RPDA-1's 6.5 x 3.6 inch footprint is larger than that of even the biggest current consumer smartphone, and the device also weighs over a pound; there's just no way around that. It is also capable of being loaded with either Windows CE, Windows Mobile, Linux or Android. Finally, the military has different connectivity requirements, and the RPDA-1 meets those as well.
Covering so many bases means a platform that's as open as possible, which in turn means certain compromises. The processor, for example, must be able to run all those different operating systems. The Texas Instruments OMAP 3530 Miltope chose does that. It's a competent chip that's also used in such high-volume devices as Intermec rugged handhelds and also by some Winmate devices, but is not at the performance level of the speedy dual- and quad-core chips running in modern smartphones.
The choice of display and digitizer, likewise, must have been a difficult one. Windows CE and Windows Mobile were designed for use with a stylus, Linux can be anything depending on its shell, but Android definitely works best with capacitive touch. As is, the RPDA-1 seems to have a resistive digitizer, with the advantage being that it can be used when and where it's wet. As far as screen size and resolution go, both are adequate and a good compromise.
Providing for all the necessary and anticipated connectivity in a device like this is difficult as well. While a modern smartphone can do with a single tiny micro-USB port, a military device may have to accommodate numerous standards, and whatever ports are used must be waterproof and sturdy (which micro-USB definitely is not). As a result, there is a screw-on Taclink connector to talk to a Taclink modem, a surface-mount connector, and a 15-pin connector that presumably handles RS232 serial as well as USB host and client.
As the pictures on top of the page show, the RPDA-1 can be paired with the RPDA-1P PC Card expansion module or the RPDA-1S with a TACLINK 3000+ modem as well as an integrated SAASM GPS receiver with L1/L2 antenna as well as connectivity with external GPS antennae and serial interface equipment.
The RPDA-1 looks rugged, and it is. VT Miltope literature lists almost 20 environmental and EMI/EMC tests the device has been subjected to, so it's safe to assume that all the ruggedness criteria are covered.
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Since 2003, Miltope is part of Vision Technologies Systems, Inc., a multi-national engineering group engaged in aerospace, electronics, land systems and the marine sector, itself the US subsidiary of ST Engineering Ltd of Singapore. The VT Miltope arm makes rugged computers and computer peripherals, designed and manufactured in the US, for military, industrial and commercial tactical and aviation applications.In October 2011, VT Miltope announced it was teaming wth General Dynamics C4 Systems on the Common Hardware Systems-4 (CHS-4) program, a five-year, Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with a potential value of $3.7b and a potential for VT Miltope to earn up to $250m over the life of this contract. VT Miltope will provide three military rugged products under this contract vehicle that will meet V2 and V3 CHS-4 environmental and EMI requirements. These products are the Enhanced / Rugged Handheld Terminal Unit, Rugged Portable Digital Assistant, and Notebook Computer Unit (see Miltope press release).
Did you brag to your friends about how tough your laptop is? If someone pulled out one of VT Miltope’s portable computers, you probably would have ended up cowering in the corner.
Designed for the military, there’s no mistaking the machines for anything but an ultra-rugged computer. Maybe, if you’re paranoid, you might mistake it for a suitcase bomb, but that’s it. When you’re hitting the battle lines, after all, you want your computer with just a tad more survival capabilities, lest risk having it wrecked with just a single incident.
VT Miltope’s laptop line includes six different machines: three standard laptops (RLC-3G, RLC-3, RLC-2), two convertibles (RCLC-1, RCLC-2) and a maintenance support computer (MSD). The innards are rather standard (Intel CPUs, DDR3 RAM, integrated graphics), but they do include sunlight-readable displays and rugged hard drives (we’re guessing encased in some drop-protection contraption).
More importantly, these machines are all equipped to pass the military’s brutal MIL-STD-810F durability standards. That means withstanding drops from any orientation, apart from having built-in capabilities to come out of brushes with water, dust, fungus, explosive impacts, EMPs and lightning strikes unscathed. As you can imagine, these things are no looker (they’re big and burly), but they do sport the form factor needed to get the job done.
Aside from laptops, VT Miltope also produces similarly rugged handhelds and mounted computers. If you want to see the ugly but dependable computers in person, they’re showcasing the machines at an AUSA (Association of the US Army) event from October 25 to 27.
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