A USB Drive designed for the military

When you absolutely, positively need that data to survive a nuclear attack. The Military takes certain things seriously, and specs are one of them. They have a spec sheet (or book) on just about anything you can think of. So when a request gets sent out the manufacturer does their best to meet the specs, or lose the bid. This is why you hear of extremely expensive hammers and parts for the military. They where designed to incredible specs. For example the Thumb Drive below can handle from 40 below zero to 185 above, it can even survive the radiation and EMP from a nuclear blast. that’s one heavy duty thumb drive. I bet it also doubles as a hammer if they can’t find one of those $1500 ones lying around, I’d just fear about how much these must cost.

The IronDrive™, tested for high temperature, shock, vibration, caustic agents, submersion, EMI, and nuclear stresses, is the ideal USB Drive for harsh military and commercial environments. The IronDrive™ does all this and retains the “hot pluggable” feature of a standard USB devices, without the fragility of a typical USB connector.

IronDrive is Portable
• Iron Drive weighs just 5.8 ounces (164 Grams).
• Overall length with connector is 4 inches.
• 1.6 inch maximum Diameter.

IronDrive was originally developed for the US Army and Marine Corps for the new generation HIMARS® launcher. IronDrive is manufactured by R&D Electronics under license from the Lockheed Martin Corporation.

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Like I said…. they tend to overkill and look at the specs, they note all the wonderful specs they are supposed to match. This wasn’t designed as a whim. The manufacturer was asked can you do this, and to these specs? And they ran with it.

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