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The French Leclerc, Indian Arjun MBT, Italian Ariete, Japanese Type 90 tank, Pakistan's Al-Khalid tank and Chinese Type 96/98 and Type 99 tanks use modular composite armour. The adoption of Modular composite armour design facilitated upgrading and exchange of the armour.
Soviet/Russian T-80Us and the Pakistani Al-Khalid use composite armour in tandem with explosive reactive armour (ERA), making it hard for missiles and tank rounds to penetrate the frontal and a portion of their side armour.
Composite armour has since been applied to smaller vehicles, right down to jeep-sized. Many of these systems are applied as upgrades to existing armour, which makes them difficult to place around the entire vehicle. Nevertheless they are often surprisingly effective; ceramic upgrades to Canadian M-113s were carried out in the 1990s, after it was realized that it would offer more protection than newly built APCs like the M2 Bradley.
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