Abstract: Provided is a suspension system for use in an armored vehicle having a floor and a roof with an opening formed therein; the suspension system including a gunner platform and a suspension apparatus configured to hold the gunner platform in a suspended position spaced from the floor and the roof of the vehicle; the suspension apparatus including non-rigid elongated suspension elements, and being free of rigid elongated elements, configured to hold the gunner platform in said suspended position. Also provided is a method for providing a gunner platform in an armored vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle comprising lower and upper surfaces, an object and a suspension apparatus for holding the object in a suspended position in the vehicle. The object having opposite rear and front edges, and adjacent first and second halves extending between the rear and front edges. The suspension apparatus being adapted to anchor the object to the lower surface of the vehicle via elongated suspension elements, and comprising first and second elongated suspension elements. Each elongated suspension element comprising first and second ends and an intermediate portion therebetween. The first elongated suspension element is connected via the first end thereof to a first point on the object's first half, and is connected via the second end thereof to a first point on the vehicle's lower surface disposed closer to the objects second half than to the first half thereof.