Patent ID: 8205933

Claim:
A field retrofittable and reconfigurable lethal threat protection system for protecting an occupant in a vehicle from a lethal threat, the vehicle having a rearward portion with a pair of rear wheel wells and a pair of rear foot wells, the occupant being positioned forward of the rear wheel wells and above the rear foot wells, said lethal threat protection system comprising: a rear underbody blast shield adapted to cover an underbody area of the rearward portion of the vehicle, said blast shield adapted to be removably attached with fasteners to a lower most surface of one of the rear foot wells and to a lower most surface of a forward portion of a corresponding one of the rear wheel wells, said blast shield adapted to extend rearwardly adjacent the lower most surface of the one of the rear foot wells and upwardly and rearwardly adjacent the lower most surface of the forward portion of the one of the rear wheel wells, said blast shield thereby providing protection to the occupant from blast sources located below the one of the rear foot wells and the one of the rear wheel wells, and rear partition armor adapted to be removably connected with fasteners to the rear wheel wells, said rear partition armor extending in a first direction between the rear wheel wells and extending in a second direction upwardly from a location between the rear wheel wells, said rear partition armor thereby being adapted to be positioned behind the occupant.