The Laptop That Saved a Soldier’s Life.
Filed under: Computers, Laptops
We have heard of U.S. soldiers taking a bullet for a fellow soldier, but now a new friend took a bullet for a U.S. soldier in Iraq.
The CF-M34 Toughbook laptop you see in the photo above has a bullet hole which shows just how tough it is as it took a bullet for a U.S. soldier in Iraq.
The BULLETPROOF laptop from Panasonic was the constant companion of one soldier and was taken through the mountains of southeastern Turkey and into the war of Iraq.
The need for rugged laptops is growing, used by the U.S. armed forces (the 82nd Airborne Division) and it was one of these laptops that saved a soldier’s life,
An estimated market of $858 million in 2007 is expected for the need of the toughest laptops, people want toughness and the need is growing.
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That’s Tough that the GI’s have to use there computers as body armor.
Yeah.. those things tend to take a beating… I threw one off a roof once… it was funny… it still worked… and it was perfectly okay aside from the fact that it was scratched.
Well that’s putting the laptop to good use. Here in Europe we build them tough.
This would be my next laptop for sure !
You want a REAL rugged notebook? These are tougher!
http://www.miltope.com/tsc-750m.html
I call BS.
Show me the other side.
In my 15 years military and 10 years IT, I’ve shot A LOT of stuff and no piece of IT hardware, EVER, has stopped a bullet.
i hate people like you test monkey. ‘10 years in IT and 15 in the military, i know everything! im calling BS. i have no sources, but im calling bullsh*t.’
how about you SUCK MY ***!
I don’t know, I have a couple of old Unisys DS/2 servers here that are probably dense enough to stop anything short of 7.62 AP…..
you call bulls**t? remember these are insurgents that the american military is fighting. they dont have the latest and greatest firearms. he couldve been shot from a long range or even, by the looks of it just a damn handgun.
Once knew a friend who’s mom bought him a dedicated word processing station built in the early 80’s from a garage sale. She got it thinking that he could use it at college. We took it out to a field and shot it up with our SKS rifles using Norinco 7.62×39 FMJ (preban). The case of the CPU tower was able to stop those powerful rounds cold. Of course it would be hard to lug around a 70lbs wordprocessor terminal.
If you look closely at the image you can see how the shock of the round transmitted through the keyboard.