Van Graff combat armor

The  is a piece of armor in Fallout: New Vegas.

Characteristics
Van Graff combat armor has a damage threshold rating of 16, one point more than standard combat armor, but one point less than Combat armor, reinforced. It is colored matte black for "brand recognition purposes", but has no matching black helmet. It can be repaired with other combat armors, but it can not be repaired with other black-colored combat armors, e.g. Van Graff Guards' combat armors.

Tip: Players simply looking for black-colored combat armor can find it on a Van Graff Guard's corpse at Durable Dunn's Sacked Caravan. The suit is simply labeled "Combat Armor" (without the Van Graff identifier) and is statistically identical to standard combat armor.

Warning: If taken from the outside of the Silver Rush from a crate, the armor cannot be removed. However, this may be useful for when the Courier might need an extra bit of DT in a situation in which the player was stripped beforehand. The armor can be removed by killing all the Van graffs in the Silver Rush causing you to fail the "Birds of a feather" Quest, but allowing you to drop the armor or sell it.

This armor is identical to the Rivet City security uniform in Fallout 3.

Locations
Given to the character at the Silver Rush during the quest Birds of a Feather. Once first part of quest is finished the armor is returned unless you allow the Silver Rush to explode.

It is possible to get 2 Van Graff Combat Armors: Note: If you then pick up and keep the 2 armors in your inventory at the same time, it will show up as only one.
 * First, complete the first step of the Birds of a Feather quest. When the guard goes inside Silver Rush, pick the weapon trunk and steal the armor (The trunk is empty on PC with patch 1.2).
 * Now, finish the Birds of a Feather quest, and you will get another Combat Armor. On your inventory, you will only see one though. To solve this, just drop one, store or sell the other one, and pick up the one you dropped.

Bugs

 * There is a bug when stealing this item from the locker next to Simon causes it to become locked to your character as a quest item, it is however weightless. You will not be able to remove this item from your inventory. Unless you kill other members of The Van Graff, when killed pick up their combat armor, then you have the option to sell, drop or give to companion. Killing Simon out front; Then swapping the armor is another solution. If you finish the Birds of a Feather quest, you will be able to drop it.
 * This has been fixed in the latest patch
 * There is a bug where this armor may not be removed when completing the door guarding quest, thus preventing the player from being able to walk away without being attacked.


 * Although stressed by numerous players who have stolen Van Graff combat armor from the front door of the Silver Rush in Freeside, and have not been able to get rid of it by stashing it somewhere or selling it, the armor indeed has NO weight what so ever. Therefore, it is pointless to get rid of it in the first place.


 * If this armor is still in your inventory as a quest item, you will be able to use and equip it when you enter the sierra madre for the Dead Money quest line.