**1. Introduction**

In many situations through history, it has been proven that saving every life is priceless and that no machine can replace its existence in active conflict and peace-keeping times. In modern warfare, it is important that the soldiers and high mobility vehicles are equipped with sufficient and effective ballistic protection so that used materials do not negatively affect the performance of tactical actions of an individual or a vehicle. For that purpose, depending on the mission, flexible body armor, molded breastplates and helmets could be used for the body protection of the individuals. Adequate ballistic plates are needed to be designed in a way to able to prevent projectiles of various calibers to penetrate, damage, and destroy armored vehicles such as transporters, tanks, helicopters .

This chapter contains the definition and classification of armor materials with a focus on ceramics and ceramic composites, the usage of ceramic fibers, processing of ceramics-based ballistic materials, and the design and manufacture of ceramic-based composite ballistic materials. The primary goal of this chapter is to explain to somebody outside this field of research and development the significance of the development and application of ceramics and composites based on ceramics in ballistic protection, production methods and secondary explain a problem that has always existed is how to describe to somebody term "Bulletproof".
