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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 lev

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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A survivability enhancement system for use on a vehicle that has a surface to which armor is to be releasably applied, comprising separable fastener structure of a first type fixed on said surface of said vehicle whose survivability is to be enhanced, and an array of armor tile elements for providin

A survivability enhancement system for use on a vehicle that has a surface to which armor is to be releasably applied, comprising separable fastener structure of a first type fixed on said surface of said vehicle whose survivability is to be enhanced, and an array of armor tile elements for providing a composite supplementary layer of armor, each said armor tile element having a complementary surface that corresponds to said surface of said vehicle, and separable fastener structure of a second type and complementary to said first type separable fastener structure secured to said armor tile array, one of said separable fastener structures having a multiplicity of hooking elements and a cooperating other said fastener structure having complementary structure that is in releasable interengagement with said hooking elements, each said tile having perimeter surface portions in mating juxtaposition with perimeter surface portions of adjacent tiles to provide a composite supplementary armor layer on said vehicle, said survivability enhancement system having energy absorbing characteristics and providing progressive energy dissipation of energy resulting from impact of a ballistic missile on an armor tile element of said array such that an adjacent tile element that is not directly impacted by said ballistic missile but is subjected to lateral force, remains attached to said surface of said vehicle due to reengagement with said complementary structure by said hooking elements associated with said adjacent tile element that release from said complementary structure under influence of said lateral force.