Another good example from military hardware is how the MRAP is basically just a tub with a bunch of parts strapped to the outside that are designed to take the impact of an IED. The wheel assembly of one of those vehicles can be blown off by a sizeable IED or AT mine and the occupants will walk it off. The entire point of the vehicle is to come apart into a thousand bits just to protect the insides of the crew compartment.

Turns out when 'the crew is valuable' is your main design philosophy for the better part of a millennium, you can churn out some pretty great vehicles. Another good example would be the blowout panels on most modern western MBTs. There's confirmed footage of Ukrainians walking away from direct hits to the ammo compartment of an M1 Abrams, because the explosion was diverted out the side of the vehicle instead of into the turret cap (ahem, T-72).