Gear: Shield Gauntlet

This gauntlet uses a collapsible fan design constructed of high-strength platisteel alloys to create a medium sized shield that can fold up and lay along  the forearm when not in use.  It requires a simple action to deploy and may be used with weapon/shield fighting styles and maneuvers.  If worn as a standalone gauntlet, it comes with a matching armored forearm guard for the other arm, and the two combined act as Secure tech Forearm guards.  If it is installed into suit armor or a cyber arm (requires a lower or full cyber arm,), the system requires 4 points of capacity.

Standalone Gauntlets
Ballistic/Impact: 2/5
Availability: 6R
Cost: 1000

Armor/cyber Modification
Ballistic/Impact: 2/4
Capacity: 4
Availability: 6R
Cost: 2000

Shield Modifications

For an additional fee, either type of shield gauntlet may be built with the following modification.  Each mod increases the cost by the listed amount and increases the availability by 2.

Chemical protection, fire resistance, nonconductivity: a shield gauntlet may receive one these armor modifications, up to Rating (3)  per the prices and rules on SR4 pg 327.

Taser: 500 nuyen; the deployed shield functions just like a taser shield as described in SR4 pg 327.

Serrated edge: 500 nuyen; the outer edge of the shield is a laser-sharpened serrated edge.  This allows a properly trained character to perform a slice attack with the shield.

Vibro: 1000 nuyen; used in conjunction with the serrated edge modification, this mod allows the entire shield to vibrate as a vibrosword does, increasing damage +1 by and granting armor penetration of -2.