Crashed Vertibird

The  is the wreckage of a vertibird that met a miserable end.

Layout
A VB-02 Vertibird crashed in a crater east of the Old Nuclear Test Site, surrounded by hardened sentry bots and/or Mister Gutsy model enemies. The wreckage houses a few skeletons and the Tesla-Beaton prototype. This suggests that the Vertibird, the skeletons, and weapon were of the East Coast Brotherhood of Steel; on their way to aid their now-routed West Coast brethren.

The Vertibird has the letters NV on the tail which suggests that it might be from the base at Navarro. It also has an ID Number on it reading "VEM1052193".

Second Opinion:

Vertibirds are usually Enclave... so is base Navaro according to the recording one ED-E. Also if you remember in Fallout 3 Tesla equipment was also Enclave, like Tesla Armour, so it would only be logical for the Tesla-Cannon Prototype to be Enclave and not Brotherhood of Steel. Also this particular Vertibird has no identifying mark, in Fallout 3 the Brotherhood Vertibirds had the Brotherhood logo on the side, so it was either Enclave or a pre-war crash as the third opinion suggest and it may have been hit with EMP blast and crashed from the test site or when the actual Apocalypse nukes hit.

(Vertibirds and Tesla were Pre-war technology and after Fallout 2 the Enclave forces in the west were mostly annihilated not only by the chosen one but by the NCR see Navarro. Also after the incidents at Adams AFB, the east cost Enclave were killed.)

Third Opinion:

There is an absence of identifiable faction clothing on the site and the skeletons appear similar to those which are found outside of the vaults the ones that died during the war. It's possible that the skeletons are that of the American Air Force from wearing regular fatigues (Explains the absence of Armor) transferring the Prototype south from Nellis AFB.

The crash would probably be a result of proximity to the Test site as both the Tests and Prototype would have been classified. This would also explain the surrounding robots as the government would send robots instead of humans to the site.

Forth opinion:

The Tesla Cannon was developed by the US government before the great war and the Vertibird could be an Enclave Vertibird fleeing to the east coast after the destruction of the Oil rig. It is unlikely that it is BoS because it is flying to the South/South east.

Fith Opinion:

It is unlikley that the Vertibird is pre-war becasue the Vertibird was not scheduled to go active until much later, after the Great War. It could be an east coast BOS Vertibird that hasnt been painted with the logo to avoid suspicion from the NCR. It could have been hit with a missle causeing it to spin resulting in the angle. They could have been on thier way to try to reconnect with the West Coast BOS.

They could be carring the Tesla Cannon to prove their efforts to help the wastelanders resulted in technology that they otherwise would not have recieved. They could have been scribes which would explain the lack of armor.

Appearances
appears in Fallout: New Vegas.

Notable loot

 * The Tesla-Beaton prototype is found at the rear of the crashed vertibird.

Behind the Scenes
This location, along with the hostile robots you encounter upon discovering the location, is a homage to the crashed vertibird in Klamath Canyon in Fallout 2.