Patent ID: 8087339

Claim:
An armor system comprising: a first armor panel including: a main portion comprising, in cross-section, a releasable fastener on an encapsulant, a spacer layer behind the encapsulant, hard face material behind the spacer layer, ballistic material, and the encapsulant on the ballistic material, a lap portion without the spacer layer of the main portion and including, in cross-section, the encapsulant, hard face material behind the encapsulant, ballistic material behind the hard face material, and the encapsulant on the ballistic material; and a second adjoining armor panel comprising: a main portion including, in cross-section, a releasable fastener on an encapsulant, a spacer layer behind the encapsulant, hard face material behind the spacer layer, ballistic material, and the encapsulant on the ballistic material, and a tongue portion over the lap portion of the first armor panel, the tongue portion different in composition than the main portion of the second armor panel and including, in cross-section, the encapsulant, ballistic material, and the encapsulant on the ballistic material, the encapsulation about an exterior of first armor panel and the second armor panel.