Ordnance – Shields – Shape or composition
Patent
1988-06-03
1990-05-29
Jordan, Charles T.
Ordnance
Shields
Shape or composition
89 3608, 52489, 52612, F41H 704
Patent
active
049285750
ABSTRACT:
A survivability enhancement system includes first separable fastener structure fixed on the surface of the vehicle or system whose survivability is to be enhanced, and an array of armor tiles. The armor tiles provide a composite supplementary layer of armor that maintains attachment at effective levels even as armor tiles are subjected to large shear forces (for example, upon ballistic impact and shattering of an adjacent tile) and that has effective force dissipation characteristics. Each armor tile has opposed surfaces with second separable fastener structure complementary to the first separable fastener structure secured to one of its surfaces, one of the separable fastener structures having a multiplicity of projecting hooking elements and the cooperating fastener structure having complementary structure that is releasably interengageable with the hooking elements.
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Marinaccio Paul J.
Ribich William A.
Sawaf Bernard E.
Smirlock Martin E.
Foster-Miller Inc.
Johnson Stephen
Jordan Charles T.
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