Metal armor (Fallout: New Vegas)

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

Characteristics
Metal armor serves as a very heavy armor. It provides much more protection than a flimsy suit of leather armor, but is more ramshackle than combat armor and is weaker than power armor. It can be very useful for someone who has Jury Rigging since it can be used to repair most types of power armor. The metal helmet is similar in shape to a motorcycle helmet. It provides moderate protection for a piece of headgear and has a stronger variant, the metal helmet, reinforced.

Locations

 * Jackal gang members and leaders, as well as Viper leaders and gunslingers sometimes wear it.
 * Prospectors will occasionally wear them.
 * Orris in Freeside wears one.
 * The mercenaries that you must deal with in front of Jacobstown each wear one.
 * Some Powder Gangers in Vault 19 wear one.
 * Can be found in the Bison Hotel in Primm in an armor case on the third floor.
 * Various small-gang leaders wear this armor, such as the Viper Gunslingers.
 * The armor locker in Wolfhorn Ranch has a set of it.
 * Some Mercenaries around the Mojave Wasteland wear the armor and helmet.
 * Some of the Crimson Caravan guards at the NCR Sharecropper Farms wear the full set.
 * Cook-Cook, one of the three Fiends you have to kill in the Three-Card Bounty quest for Dhatri has the armor, as well as a Raider Arclight Helmet, and a Heavy Incinerator.
 * The Gun Runners (Fallout: New Vegas) sell the Reinforced Variant.
 * Some of the Vipers that attempt to ambush you at the Raided Farmstead will wear this armor.
 * The helmet is on display at Miguel's Pawn Shop in Freeside to be stolen or purchased.
 * The fiend Duke, wears a set of metal armor.
 * The helmet can be found on the head of a skeleton beside a crashed motorcycle on the stretch of road running from Ranger Station Charlie to Novac. This seems to confirm the helmets use pre-war by motorcyclists, or at least expand speculation.
 * Metal helmets are sometimes worn by Crimson Caravan guards.

Variants

 * Lightweight metal armor (Mercenary Pack) - A suit of metal armor that has been trimmed down. It's lighter and easier to move in and is just as good at stopping bullets.
 * Metal armor, reinforced - A variant of metal armor, possessing higher DT and more durability.

Bugs

 * When holding metal armor outside of the pipboy (via pressing down L3) when jumping the metal armor will freeze mid-air and vanish. It won't disappear, and will be invisible. To avoid this, it is advised to pick it up again.
 * Despite the fact that the metal helmet does not in any way cover the mouth when worn by a female character, it still muffles the character's voice as though it did.