US 7,458,306 B2Granted

External modular armor assembly

AssigneeBAE Systems Land & Armaments L.P.

InventorsPaul P. Singh, Ronald E. Musante, Brian H. Kariya, Anthony P. Lee

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Abstract

An interface includes a blast plate having plate structure, the plate structure being formed to substantially conform to a certain portion of an exterior margin of a hull of a certain vehicle and being semi-permanently mounted to the hull by mounting to certain mounting devices present on the exterior margin of the hull and having mounting structure for supportively mounting a standardized add-on device, the mounting structure being designed to facilitate the add-on device being readily mountable on and demountable from the plate structure, the plate structure having structural characteristics for acting to protect the hull from effects of a blast directed at the hull. A modular assembly and a blast plate are further included.

Claims28

Dependent claims

A vehicle having a blast plate assembly, the vehicle having a hull, the hull having certain mounting devices for mounting certain structure exterior to the hull, comprising:

plate structure having blast deflecting properties and having a first planar margin and an opposed second planar margin, a plurality of mounting bores being defined in the plate structure, each of the bores being alignable with a selected mounting device on the hull;
at least one mounting bracket disposed on the first planar surface, the at least one mounting bracket having a plurality of bores defined therein for accepting a plurality of respective mounting pins of the at least one add-on device for supportively mounting the add-on device, the pins being readily removeable for readily demounting the add-on device;
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attaching fixtures, a respective attaching fixture being disposable in each mounting bore and couplable to a respective mounting device for semi-permanently mounting the plate structure to the hull of the vehicle.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.