The core armor is a variation on the british chobham armor an arrangement of metal plates ceramic blocks and open space heat and sabot rounds may make it through the outer layer of the armor but they won t make it all the way into the crew compartment.
Ceramic tank armor nheavy.
A relatively famous form of composite armor is so called chobham armor that sandwiches a layer of ceramic between two plates of steel armor and is used on main battle tanks such as the abrams.
Ceramic material shatters as the heat round penetrates the highly energetic fragments destroying the geometry of the metal jet generated by the hollow shaped charge greatly diminishing the penetration.
In general you will always want to take the heaviest armor your loadout allows.
The most common materials are alumina boron carbide silicon carbide and titanium diboride.
Chobham armour is the informal name of a composite armour developed in the 1960s at the british tank research centre on chobham common surrey the name has since become the common generic term for composite ceramic vehicle armour other names informally given to chobham armour include burlington and dorchester.
Ceramic armor is armor used by armored vehicles and in personal armor for its attenuative properties.
There is also improved heavy armor which is part of the interdiction dlc.
You must always have one equipped.
Equipment there are 3 default types of armor.
Light armor medium armor and heavy armor.
Ceramic armor is armor used by armored vehicles and in personal armor to resist projectile penetration through high hardness and compressive strength.