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.

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.But the armor can also 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 armor 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: 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. 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. 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.

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, I put everything I had in a Lucky 38 weapons chest, with the V-G combat armor still locked in my inv. my couriers weight read a solid 0). You will not be able to remove this item from your inventory. Unless you kill other members of The Van Graff ( The Thugs) when killed pick up their combat armour (Still black) then you have the option to sell, drop or give to companion. Killing Simon out front; Then swapping the armor is another solution.
 * This has been patched in the latest patch (Xbox 360 still pending).
 * If you finish the Birds of a Feather quest, you will be able to drop it.
 * This includes failing the quest. For example, if you kill the door guard, Simon, via reverse-pickpocketing C-4 onto him and then using a detonator while hiding, you can fail the quest, drop the armor and still buy and sell in the Silver Rush.
 * 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.

Behind the Scenes
This armor has a script attached to it in the GECK; however, the script is blank aside from the name.

Appearances
The appears in Fallout: New Vegas.