Patent ID: 7730823

Claim:
An armor system for protection of a resource by preventing complete penetration of said armor system by a shaped charge warhead, said armor system comprising: a multi layer protective shield for forming a barrier between the resource and a potential threat, said shield comprising: a first magnetic field layer generating a first magnetic field, said first magnetic field layer comprising a permanent magnetic material magnetized to have magnetic field force lines of said first magnetic field parallel to a surface of said shield; and an armor layer spaced from said first magnetic field layer and parallel to said first magnetic field layer, and said armor layer disposed between said first magnetic field layer and the resource; said armor system configured to protect said resource from a shaped charge warhead by said first magnetic field subjecting a blast from the shaped charge warhead to a braking force that is in accordance with Lenz's law, said braking force deflecting a molten metal jet of the shaped charge warhead blast thereby preventing complete penetration of said armor layer of said armor system by the blast from the shaped charge warhead.