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.
In general you will always want to take the heaviest armor your loadout allows.
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.
The m1 is mainly composed of sturdy rolled homogeneous armor rha steel plates sandwiched around thicker protective material.
As well as enhanced light armor and enhanced medium armor which is available for free on the ps3 store.
There is also improved heavy armor which is part of the interdiction dlc.
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.
The most common materials are alumina boron carbide silicon carbide and titanium diboride.
Ceramic armor is armor used by armored vehicles and in personal armor for its attenuative properties.
You must always have one equipped.