Ballistic Shield



A Ballistic Shield or Tactical Shield is a hand-held shield that is capable of defending the user from handguns, shotguns and submachine guns. Less common are heavier and thicker rifle-protection shields that are mounted on wheels for ease of mobility. Ballistic shields have been used by law enforcement and military throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Battlefield 4
"The ballistic shield will protect you from small arms fire but can only take limited damage from vehicles, explosives and high caliber rounds before being rendered useless."

- In-game Description

The Ballistic Shield is a gadget that will be introduced in the Battlefield 4: Dragon's Teeth expansion. It is unlocked upon the completion of the Vanguard assignment.

The gadget is two-handed and deflects all incoming fire ranging from hand guns to heavy machine guns. The gadget also allows users to perform a Shield Bash on enemies that are within a two meter range. The shield has a "broken" model as well as its normal one, but it is currently unknown under what circumstances this model is used. The broken model appears to be related to the shield glass panel that can shatter.

Trivia

 * Originally, the Ballistic Shield was supposed to allow users to also wield handguns but this was later scrapped due to memory constraints caused by last generation consoles.