Forecr MILBOX-THR NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor Rugged Mission Computers

Defence and aerospace programmes increasingly run perception, sensor fusion and video analytics on the vehicle, aircraft or vessel itself, with no data centre to fall back on and no shelter from vibration, shock, temperature swings, dust or water. Supply voltages on these installations are rarely clean, and video often arrives as SDI from existing sensors. The Forecr MILBOX-THR series answers that brief, putting NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor compute inside a sealed, IP67-rated enclosure designed to meet MIL-STD-810G, MIL-STD-461G, MIL-STD-704F, MIL-STD-1275E and DO-160G.

Every MILBOX-THR mission computer shares the same carrier design and I/O. Networking is 4x 10G Ethernet over copper for moving sensor data, video and results across secure networks. Video runs through 2x HDMI 2.0 outputs, with 2x 3G-SDI outputs and 2x 3G-SDI inputs in the default build, and a camera expansion slot can instead feed up to 8x GMSL2 or 6x analog video inputs across 12 configurable coax positions on three rear multi-coax connectors. Field I/O comprises 4x isolated CAN FD, 4x isolated RS-232/422/485 and 8x isolated 3.3V digital I/O, alongside 3x USB 3.1. Three M.2 Key-M 2280 slots run at PCIe Gen5 x4, x2 and x1 for up to three NVMe SSDs or AI accelerator modules, with the x4 slot carrying the 3G-SDI inputs by default. TPM 2.0, a 6-axis IMU and a temperature sensor are built in, and the software stack is Ubuntu Linux 24.04 with JetPack 7.x.

The range splits by module. The MILBOX-THR5000 carries the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor T5000 with 128GB of 256-bit LPDDR5X memory and up to 2070 TFLOPS of AI performance, for the largest models and the most concurrent video streams. The MILBOX-THR4000 uses the Jetson AGX Thor T4000 with 64GB of LPDDR5X, keeping the identical enclosure, I/O and environmental envelope for workloads that do not need the full T5000 memory.

Forecr builds the MILBOX-THR for defence, aerospace, marine and transportation work, including ISR video processing, UAV payload integration, command-and-control displays and autonomous systems such as drones and robotic vehicles. Both mission computers run from an 11-60 VDC supply, operate from -25°C to +70°C at 5% to 95% non-condensing humidity, and carry no wireless interfaces. The enclosure measures 300mm x 225mm x 105mm, and IP67 sealing protects it against dust and temporary immersion on open decks and vehicle exteriors.