is not necessarily to be construed as preferred or advantageous over other embodiments all of the embodiments described herein are exemplary embodiments provided to enable persons skilled in the art to make or use the invention and not to limit the scope of the invention which is defined by the claims while the isolation struts are discussed with reference to exemplary embodiments any one of numerous other embodiments of a fluid filled isolation strut may be implemented as well fluid as used in the present invention can be any viscous liquid or any gas known in the art furthermore there is no intention to be bound by any expressed or implied theory presented in the preceding technical field background brief summary or the following detailed description embodiments of the present disclosure are generally directed to improved vibration isolation and damping systems the disclosed embodiments take the conventionally employed internal through shaft out of the damper and wrap it around the entire damper housing thus instead of an annulus used for damping that a through shaft provides the damping will now come from an annular orifice the external through shaft provides the same relative motion that the conventional internal through shaft configuration would provide as such the systems can a have very thin fluid for cold temperature environments and b handle large rotations that with the conventional internal through shaft would prove unattainable fig1 illustrates an exemplary system having vibration damping and isolation the system 100 may be implemented in any one of numerous environments such as in space terrestrially or under water the system 100 includes a base 102 a payload 104 and at least one vibration isolation apparatus 106 the base 102 is configured to provide a platform to which the payload 104.