Patent ID: 6892623

Claim:
A ballistic armor panel for attaching to an object to protect it against small arms bullets and kinetic energy projectiles, the panel comprising a carrying board, said board being made of hard material, said board being a single part having a peripheral portion and a receiving portion, said peripheral portion being integral with the receiving portion, wherein said receiving portion is provided with a meshed structure defined by a plurality of adjoining through-going apertures having a polygonal cross-section, said apertures are distributed within the board in such a manner that the wall thickness between adjoining apertures is kept at a minimum, each aperture accommodating therein a body made of a hard material, said body having a longitudinal axis which is coaxial with an axis of the respective aperture and said body having a polygonal cross-section corresponding to the polygonal cross-section of the respective aperture along the said longitudinal axis.