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Abstract

An armor plate for use in the ballistic protection of a structure against projectiles incoming from an expected threat direction, the plate having an outer face facing the threat direction and comprising a layer of first pellets made of ballistic material of a high density S₁ and having a characteristic diameter D_P, and second pellets which have a low density section with a central axis transverse to the outer face, along which the low density section at least partially extends, the low density section of the second pellets having a density S₂ which is in the range 0≦S₂<1, the second pellets having an outer characteristic diameter D_OUT substantially equal to the diameter D_P and the low density section having an inner characteristic diameter D_IN, D_INOUT, each second pellet being surrounded only by the first pellets.

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