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US 8,783,611 B2Granted
Jettisonable armor
AssigneeBell Helicopter Textron Inc.
InventorsMartin Peryea, Jon Stewart Tatro
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Abstract
An aircraft has an armor releasably attached to the body of an aircraft, an actuator connecting the armor to the body of the aircraft, and a control that, upon operation, actuates the actuator to release the armor from the body.
Claims30
An aircraft comprising:
- a body;
- an armor releasably attached in covering relation over at least a portion of the body, the armor being exposed to an external environment and arranged to protect the portion of the body which it is in covering relation with while being attached;
- one or more actuators operatively associated with the armor, the armor being releasably attached to the body of the aircraft using the one or more actuators;
- and
- a control operatively connected with the one or more actuators for actuating the one or more actuators, wherein operation of the control actuates the one or more actuators to release the armor from the body.
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An armor system for a vehicle, the armor system comprising:
- an armor releasably attached in covering relation over at least a portion of the vehicle;
- the armor being exposed to an external environment and arranged to protect the portion of the vehicle which it is in covering relation with while being attached;
- one or more actuators operatively associated with the armor, the armor being releasably attached to a body of the vehicle using the one or more actuators;
- and
- a control operatively connected with the one or more actuators for actuating the one or more actuators,
- wherein operation of the control actuates the one or more actuators to release the armor from the vehicle.
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An armor system for a vehicle, the armor system comprising:
- an armor releasably attached in covering relation over at least a portion of the vehicle, the armor being exposed to an external environment and arranged to protect the portion of the vehicle which it is in covering relation with while being attached;
- one or more actuators operatively associated with the armor;
- and
- a control operatively connected with the one or more actuators for actuating the one or more actuators,
- wherein operation of the control actuates the one or more actuators to release the armor from the vehicle, and
- wherein the vehicle is a land vehicle.
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An armor system for a vehicle, the armor system comprising:
- an armor releasably attached in covering relation over at least a portion of the vehicle, the armor being exposed to an external environment and arranged to protect the portion of the vehicle which it is in covering relation with while being attached;
- one or more actuators operatively associated with the armor;
- and
- a control operatively connected with the one or more actuators for actuating the one or more actuators,
- wherein operation of the control actuates the one or more actuators to release the armor from the vehicle, and
- wherein the vehicle is a marine vehicle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.