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As the need for armored civil vehicles has become more substantial in the last years throughout the raging Middle East on the one hand; and as an armored civil vehicle is still not an affordable and easy-to-get product from the other hand, a new patented application has been developed lately to overcome the two challenges, protection and cost.

The ArmorGuard, developed and produced by Top Car Armoring Ltd. keeps a passenger safe from a hitting bullet in his soft-skin, non-armored, car; thus it protects lives without modifying the vehicle to an armored one.

Doron Labock, the company’s owner and General Manager, has been involved in the armored vehicles industries since the late 1980s.

“we armor civilian and commercial vehicles, both for local and international market. The market we are familiar the most with is the local diplomatic sector. Alongside with supplying it with new armored vehicles, we supply continuously its current armored fleets with reparation and maintenance services, as well as armor vehicles rental.

We have noticed that managing fleets of armored vehicles has been a complicated matter.

All the above brought me to look for some kind of application which would provide bulletproof protection, affordability and ergonomics. That is how we came out with the ArmorGuard.

It is a portable device, based on a few ballistic plates, all upholstered decoratively. The plates are “hooked” to each other with tenon, which makes the application modular. The size of each plate as well as the number of plates to be “hooked” are flexible and subjected to the customer’s vehicle as well as to his “fleet management”; therefore, instead of equipping all vehicles with ArmorGuard per passenger, it is more likely that customers procure less ArmorGuard kits and modulate them according to the vehicle’s bench length, number of passengers etc”.

The company is also armoring different types of cars according the client’s specifications.

One such car will be displayed today, at the i-HLS Future Forces Conference today in Rishon Le-Zion.