Ballistic Vests

"Be a team player, throw down some Ballistic Vests for your crew."

- In-game intel

Ballistic Vests is a five point Support Strike Package reward which appears in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Ballistic vests are contained in a duffel bag player throw onto the ground from which teammates can take, increasing their overall health by 30 points. When acquired, the player's screen will be tinted yellow, similar to the effects of Painkiller in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

If enough damage is taken, the vest will be destroyed, reverting the player back to 100 maximum health, so caution should be taken even with the vest. When damaging a player wearing a vest, a ballistic vest icon will appear under the hitmarker.

The Ballistic Vests pile cannot be taken by the enemy team but it can be destroyed by them, having a total of only one HP. The player who placed the Ballistic Vests gets 50 XP every time a teammate picks one up.

Trivia

 * When acquiring the Ballistic Vests, the sound file when acquiring a Sentry Gun from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is heard.
 * Though an infinite amount can be taken from it, the bag of vests will disappear after several minutes, regardless of if they were used or not. The bag it will burst into flames and disappear, which also happens when the Ballistic Vest duffel bag is destroyed by enemies.
 * Players can easily destroy their own bag of Ballistic Vests by knifing them.
 * Players may only pick up one Ballistic Vest per bag per life.
 * The Ballistic Vests is the only killstreak/pointstreak reward that the player can use when an enemy EMP is active.
 * Even though it is possible to pick up more than one Ballistic Vest at a time via different Ballistic Vest Duffel Bags, the effects do not stack.