Hull Plating measures the damage that a unit can receive in combat before being destroyed. In combat, ships give and receive damage. The amount of damage a unit can sustain before being destroyed is given by the Hull Plating. Every unit has a basic value of Hull Plating, which is 1/10th of the ship Structural Integrity (the sum of metal plus crystal used in its production). Besides, each technological upgrade of the Armour Technology gives more 10% of that base value. The initial Hull plating of a unit in the beginning of a combat is given by