AEGIS

AEGIS is a type of UNSC armour, a ceramic composite material, used in a wide variety of roles for the UNSC.

History
The AEGIS armour was developed in 2567, in replacement of the older PHALANX composite materials. The material, designed and tested at the UAE Armour Research Centre on Chobham Common, Earth. The material was designed to plug the gaps in the inefficiencies of the older PHALANX, which was designed for combating energy weapons and the even older SCUTUM composite material, designed to stop chemical ordnance, such as firearms and missiles and fragmentation weapons. The AEGIS was developed to combine the best of both worlds, capable of stopping wide variety of energy and chemical ordnance, while being corrosion resistant, possess a multi-hit capacity, be cheap and easy to manufacture and be light and rigid enough to be used for any purpose.

Materials
The AEGIS, like it's predecessors, is highly classified materials and a classified manufacturing process. What is know is, it uses a composite of a variety of materials, suspected to be high modulus, high strength titanium or chromium doped synthetic ceramic materials, possible mixed with combinations of other high strength materials. The resulting material has a molecular mass of 49.56045 g·mol−1, a relatively high density, a melting point nearing 4167 kelvin, high tensile strength (near 187 GPa), a high Young's Modulus (roughly 4.6 TPa) and a Mohs Hardness of 11.5. The material is a miraculously strong material, capable of shattering enemy projectiles (and in large enough amounts, like in warships, shatter MAC slugs) and acts as a ablative defence against energy weapons and defeat even tandem HEAT missiles. It is suspected, the base of the AEGIS, is a carbon multiwall nanotube lattice work, forming a net like shape, with the network formed by carefully coaxing 'nanobudding' into nanotubes, linking a single tube to parrellel tubes. With the combined metallic elements, it forms a carbide.

Uses
The AEGIS is light and rigid enough to be used for almost any purpose. It is used in infantry body armour, tank armour and even warship armour, in very large amounts. It is arranged into tiles, which are easy to replace, and each possessing a multi-hit effects against mutliple kinds of threats.