NCR salvaged power armor

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

Background
NCR salvaged power armor is T-45 power armor recovered by the NCR during the Brotherhood War. NCR technicians have restored it to working order by replacing the back-mounted cylinders with a custom module and stripping out the joint servomotors, allowing it to be used by soldiers without the need of Power Armor Training, even though "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.

The main differences from regular T-45 power armor are its white coloration, the lack of the original shoulder pauldrons, and parts missing from the legs.

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-45 power armor. It retains the -2 Agility effect however, and also has a slightly reduced weight and damage threshold.

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 20 units 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 the player can obtain for most of the game, equaled only by the rare NCR Ranger combat armor.

Locations

 * 188 Trading Post - two heavy troopers will wear this armor after a certain level.
 * Camp Forlorn Hope - can be found outside the command tent.
 * Camp McCarran - two can be found on heavy troopers guarding James Hsu's office.
 * Hoover Dam - can be found on heavy troopers.
 * NCR Ranger Safehouse - can be found in the safehouse however, in very poor condition.
 * Long 15 Worn by Irradiated heavy troopers.

Bugs

 * Like most of the larger, bulkier armors, when holstering two handed weapons, it tends to clip through portions of the armor, in this case most notably the air conditioner backpack.