A large amount of developmental usage was on the early 1960s rocket powered X-15 crewed aircraft traveling at hypersonic speeds in excess of Mach 6.5 (roughly 5,000 mph).
In the online game DarkSpace, ablative armor is utilized to counter projectile-based damage while making the ship more vulnerable to lasers and energy-based weapons.
In the Anno Domini time line, the Earth's three space elevators are covered by ablative armor plates to protect their structures from damage.
[citation needed] Armor plating is usually considered strong against electromagnetic and thermal damage, and weak against kinetic energy penetrators and bombardment of subatomic particles (explosive), although a few exceptions exist.
[citation needed] In the console and PC game Mass Effect there are several variants of armor for all species referred to as ablative.
[citation needed] In the tabletop wargame some armored vehicles, like the Astra Militarum's Sentinel walker, have ablative plating to help reduce damage to the pilot and survive the high power weaponry often faced in the game's setting.