Light armor medium armor and heavy armor.
Ceramic tank armor nheavy.
Ceramic armor is armor used by armored vehicles and in personal armor for its attenuative properties.
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.
In general you will always want to take the heaviest armor your loadout allows.
Ceramics are often used where light weight is important as they weigh less than metal alloys for a given degree of resistance.
Ceramic armor is armor used by armored vehicles and in personal armor to resist projectile penetration through high hardness and compressive strength.
Equipment there are 3 default types of armor.
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.
The m1 is mainly composed of sturdy rolled homogeneous armor rha steel plates sandwiched around thicker protective material.
You must always have one equipped.
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.