Ceramics are often used where light weight is important as they weigh less than metal alloys for a given degree of resistance.
Ceramic tank armor nheavy.
In general you will always want to take the heaviest armor your loadout allows.
Ceramic armor is armor used by armored vehicles and in personal armor to resist projectile penetration through high hardness and compressive strength.
You must always have one equipped.
There is also improved heavy armor which is part of the interdiction dlc.
The most common materials are alumina boron carbide silicon carbide and titanium diboride.
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 armor is armor used by armored vehicles and in personal armor for its attenuative properties.
Light armor medium armor and heavy armor.
As well as enhanced light armor and enhanced medium armor which is available for free on the ps3 store.
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.
Equipment there are 3 default types of armor.