Armored Vault 101 Jumpsuit

The Armored Vault suit or Armored Vault 101 jumpsuit is a piece of clothing in Fallout 3.

Characteristics
The Armored Vault suit is as the name suggests, a modified version of the regular Vault-Tec Vault suit, modified to better protect its owner in combat. While it has the name Armored Vault suit, it appears as a normal Vault jumpsuit with several metal plates attached to provide additional protection. Most likely from common leather armor. The two items share a leathery image and the distinctive single shoulder guard, a tribute to the acclaimed Mad Max series that featured similar, distinctive armor. This suggests that Vault 101's Vault experiment that "no one ever enters and no one ever leaves" was not quite successful.

Its performance is similar to that of Vault 101 security armor, the only differences being that the armored Vault suit has added effects while the Vault 101 security armor can be repaired using combat armor. The bonuses provided, +5 to energy weapons and small guns, are fairly beneficial at the start of the game, where small guns like the 10mm pistol and energy weapons like the laser pistol are quickly obtainable.

It cannot be repaired with any other armor, and must be repaired by NPCs.

Locations

 * The suit can be found in Craterside Supply, Moira's store in Megaton. Moira bestows this gift on the player after complying with a request to recall how life in Vault 101 was. Moira explains that she made this suit for a girl from the Vault around "10 or 12 years ago," but the girl never returned to pick it up, leading Moira to speculate that she may have died. Which also hints at the possibility that this stranger could have been the Lone Wanderer mother.
 * It can also be stolen or bought for around 180 caps, if you chose to not help her with the Wasteland Survival Guide.

Behind the scenes

 * In the Fallout 3 ending cut-scenes, the Lone Wanderer is seen wearing the armored Vault suit in all the parts he/she appears in.