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.
Ceramic tank armor nheavy.
The m1 is mainly composed of sturdy rolled homogeneous armor rha steel plates sandwiched around thicker protective material.
Ceramic armor is armor used by armored vehicles and in personal armor to resist projectile penetration through high hardness and compressive strength.
The most common materials are alumina boron carbide silicon carbide and titanium diboride.
There is also improved heavy armor which is part of the interdiction dlc.
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.
You must always have one equipped.
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.
Light armor medium armor and heavy armor.
Ceramics are often used where light weight is important as they weigh less than metal alloys for a given degree of resistance.
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.
As well as enhanced light armor and enhanced medium armor which is available for free on the ps3 store.