Patent ID: 8573110

Claim:
A combination vehicle defensive and offensive weapon system comprising: (a) a monitoring device detecting a suspected projectile launch and an incoming projectile; (b) an on-board vehicle protection system that calculates the speed, travel path and estimated time of the arrival of the incoming projectile to strike the vehicle, the vehicle protection system further calculates a ballistic solution to intercept the incoming projectile, the vehicle protection system being configured to launch a counter measure to engage and destroy the incoming projectile; (c) an on-board counter offensive weapon system comprising: (i) a laser range finder, (ii) a munitions firing tube, and (iii) a programmable munition; and (d) a communication link from the vehicle protection system to the counter offensive weapon system, wherein the communication link transmits a launch point defined by the position data for a launch of an incoming projectile that was fired upon the vehicle; wherein the laser ranger finder calculates a distance to the launch point of the incoming projectile; and wherein the programmable munition is fired at the launch point.