A protective suit for protecting personnel from explosive blast detonation and ballistic threats includes a rifle defeating flexible ballistic and fragmentation resistant inner body armor vest with coverage designed to wrap completely around a torso and abdomen of a body. It further includes an outer garment coupled to the inner body armor vest, such as by a quick release system; wherein the outer garment is a unitary garment dimensioned to cover the body from the base of the foot up to the head and outward to the wrists. A collar is attached to the outer garment, wherein the collar comprises a frontal yoke region for providing additional ballistic and fragmentation protection, and a helmet provides additional ballistic and fragmentation protection.