NCR Salvaged Power Armor

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

Overview
NCR salvaged power armor is T-45d power armor recovered by the NCR during the NCR-Brotherhood War. NCR technicians stripped out the servomotors and replaced the rad scrubbers with a custom air conditioning module, allowing it to be used by soldiers without the need of power armor training. The process, however, dramatically reduces its effectiveness, as Chief Hanlon states "It feels like you're carrying a brahmin on your back". For identification, it has a yellow NCR Bear logo painted on its chest plate and red stripes on the arms.

Characteristics
Salvaged power armor does not require the Power Armor Training perk and does not have the usual +2 Strength or 10% radiation resistance bonuses of normal T-45d power armor. It retains the -2 Agility effect however, and also has a slightly reduced weight and Damage Threshold. Because it is no longer powered, it does not possess the weakness of genuine power armor to electromagnetic attacks.

In terms of effectiveness, NCR salvaged power armor is bested in weight-to-DT ratio alone by the far lighter combat armor, reinforced mark 2, which has the same DT rating, weighs 17.5 pounds less, and also lacks any sort of Agility penalty. The only advantage it provides is that it possesses an item HP of 1000 while no version of combat armor has HP higher than 650. NCR salvaged power armor is the most protective NCR disguise one can obtain for most of the game, equaled only by the NCR Ranger combat armor, which is also 11 pounds lighter than the salvaged power armor.

Locations

 * 188 trading post - Two NCR heavy troopers will wear this armor at least level 16.
 * Camp Forlorn Hope - Two NCR heavy troopers will wear this armor at least level 16.
 * Camp McCarran - Two on NCR heavy troopers guarding James Hsu's office after a certain progression into the main storyline.
 * Hoover Dam - On heavy troopers.
 * NCR Ranger safehouse - In the safehouse, in very poor condition.
 * Long 15 - Worn by irradiated heavy troopers.