Patent ID: 7458306

Claim:
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; and 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.