The Lore of T-51 Power Armor

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  @reginleif6703 · 4 years ago

  I like the 4’s design more. It makes me think armor when I see it and not a metal hazmat suit.

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• FR

  @frankrino · 4 years ago

  In Fallout 4, the canonical reason why you&apos;re able to immediately access the Power Armor, instead of having to undergo special training, is because the protagonist is a pre-Nuclear War Army veteran, so it&apos;s very likely he/she already knew how to operate one.<br>Great video by the by!

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  @hannes5437 · 4 years ago

  The T45 in Fallout 3 makes, at least to me, a lot of sense. Most of the T51b was used in the War with China and the weaker T45 was still pretty hefty so it was used for crowd control in the own country.

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  @ZeonicFenrir · 4 years ago

  The T-51b at Fort Constantine seems to have been a last minute change, based on the fact that the terminal where you disable the force field says that inside should be the Medical Armor Prototype, which you instead find below Old Olney.

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  @ez-bakeoven6797 · 4 years ago

  I think that Bethesda should add the Power Armor training perk back in for the next fallout game, but not as something that locks it away, I think it should work more like the books from 3 or the unarmed takedowns from New Vegas. I think it&apos;d work best where if you were to pick up a suit before attaining the perk, you would receive harsher movement, weight, and perception debuffs, and when you do get the perk, it&apos;d mitigate or completely get rid of the aforementioned debuffs. I also think it could work good for upgrading power armor, as the more you know about how it works, the more ways you can find to improve it.

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  @Pigness7 · 4 years ago (edited)

  Imo T51 being the pinnacle of prewar PA tech doesn&apos;t exactly have to conflict with T60&apos;s existence. T60, in my head canon, is not as technically advanced as 51, but instead a post anchorage retrofit of old 45 suits using TECHNOLOGY they developed for T51. 76 does fix these stats tho.

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  @Idazmi7 · 4 years ago (edited)

  The Enclave Armor in Fallout 3 being inferior to T-51b actually makes some lore sense when you remember how badly the Enclave was destroyed in Fallout 2: it&apos;s essentially a miracle that the Enclave still exists at all, so they&apos;re definitely running on inferior equipment compared to what they used before, regardless of name. There&apos;s also a historical precedent: the M3 submachine gun of WWII was inferior to the earlier M1 in <i>every single area</i> except cost and weight, but the military went with the M3 anyway to save money.

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  @Cheeky_Bandit · 4 years ago (edited)

  <b>*I have some input on the 10 micron thick silver coating found on the T-51 power armor. It will surprise you.*</b><br><br>I have experience working with copper busbar epoxy coating and platting lines at an ABB Electrification facility.<br><br>The minimum silver plate range is 1 micron and a maximum range is 40 microns. Although our ranges where 3-7 microns. With some of these 15KVAC busbars running 6000 Amps. (That&apos;s 37.452 Sextillion electrons per second or 90 million watts)<br><br>The thickness being dependent on what type of corrosion/friction resistants you needed for that particular busbar.<br><br>A 10 micron thickness of silver is fairly high for most applications.<br><br>Consider that friction and corrosion resistant silver plated roll bearings have a range of 1-6 microns.<br><br>With all that said, is 10 microns enough to provide resistance to lasers and endure conventional bullets? <br><br>I&apos;d say. Yes. It would in fact endure a moderate amount of ballistic damage and completely ignore electron based weapons like the laser rifle or Gatling Laser. Which produce about 3047.62 amps (45,714,300 watts) per shot.<br><br><b>*I have all the math for electron based weapons just ask if you want too see it*</b>

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  @NemFX · 4 years ago (edited)

  T-51 was in Fallout Tactics. In the introduction where it&apos;s flipping through the book, the armour shows is T-51.<br><br>Fallout sounds like the kind of reality where they would advertise something as being awesome, even if it isn&apos;t. Take Quantum, for example, saying that they have double the calories.

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  @sanguiniusonvacation1803 · 4 years ago (edited)

  &quot; we lost so much in the explosion , the President , Horrigan, &nbsp;the Cheifs of staff , our home and worst of all nearly a century of scientific progress and advanced manufacturing techniques . We managed to make it out with only some of the RnD departments data as we fled the Oil Rig , but even then it wasn&apos;t until we made it to Raven Rock that we could restart manufacturing T-51 equivalent armors again with the help of the bases facilities and that computer they have in the basement . However it seems that it might be decades before we can recover enough lost knowledge to build the original Advanced power Armour type again .&quot;

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  @mattguy1773 · 4 years ago

  Power armor will always be my favorite part of fallout

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• FL

  @FlyJonat · 4 years ago

  If I remember well, the enclave use the t-51 to train soldiers to use power armors and to perform manual labor because they are less advanced and cheaper than the advanced power armor.

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