In this study, it is intended to optimize a high-velocity impact case of a composite plate. The case selected from literature focused on the failure response of advanced carbon–carbon (C/C) composites under high-velocity impacts. Based on the stochastic optimization method, three unique models are introduced within the present study's scope as dimensionless damage areas of front and back sides and the composite impact energy response. The difference between the equations found in the present study and the base study is the number of variables. Obtained prediction models consist of only the tests' input variables; thus, these models can be considered the essential prediction functions of high-velocity impact response of C/C composites under high temperatures. Multiple nonlinear regression method is used for objective functions of the optimization problem. Since the determination coefficient values have been found quite similar to the ones in the literature, the presented models can be considered successful in predicting the results. By utilizing the novel regression functions presented in this study, the damaged areas are minimized. Without the necessity of experimental research, further predictions can be made by operating the models found in the present study.

In composite materials made from metals and ceramics, a metallic substrate material is reinforced with ceramic hardened particles. This combination makes it possible to combine the low weightiness of the metal with the resistance of ceramics. Used metals in those types of composites have greater density than the ceramics, so relatively, metals are heavier than ceramics, but in metal-ceramic composite applications, the metal parts are used in small quantities as in thin slices. These types of composites can combine attractive properties of both a ceramic, such as high temperature resistance and hardness, and those of a metal, such as the ability to undergo plastic deformation. Metal-ceramic armors are used in the fields where the weight factor is not crucial yet important for mobilization. Metal-ceramic composites show their unique values in armor technologies especially in vehicle protection applications. Ceramic balls offer advantages such as being lightweight, lower friction resistance, high temperature resistance, higher rigidity, higher hardness, and higher corrosion resistance than metallic composite core, but these properties belong to the material nature. In ballistic applications like high velocity impact situations, spherical shape, theoretically must influence bullet trajectory. Because of the curved surface of a sphere, chances are a projectile hits any spherical surface obliquely. That means the projectile loses some of its kinetic energy by transferring it into the sphere and changing course into another trajectory axis. Shao et al. showed this trajectory deflection effect vividly [1].