Patent ID: 8327748

Claim:
A method for protecting objects and personnel from attack comprising: (a) rigorously determining the Requirements including at a minimum what is to be protected, what the threat is, what the environment is, and what constitutes success; (b) selecting a substantial physical barrier that will support the mission and defeat the threat specified; (c) selecting a vehicle as carrier that can carry said substantial physical barrier reliably throughout the required environments; (d) designing the vehicle's armor system to protect the carrier vehicle itself and to complement said substantial physical barrier in shielding the protected object in accordance with the Requirements; (e) selecting a command and control system for the vehicle and the controller that will support the Requirements; (f) integrating said substantial physical barrier, the carrier vehicle, the carrier vehicle armor, and the command and control system and formally developing the production data package through an iterative set of steps incorporating successively greater levels of detail in the configurations designed and tested; whereby the performance standard set forth in the Requirements is met.