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What, Where and Why on the War Machine Armor
....just before "death" to take care of business quickly, and to leave for his Iron Man replacement--Jim Rhodes.
The Variable Threat Response Battle Suit, Model XI, Mark I, is designed unapologetically for total and complete warfare, hence the nickname, "War Machine." In fact, Tony Stark himself has said that he is,"delighted at its compactness and horrified at its concentration of deadliness." Black and white, this armor is ready to rock with an on-board arsenal of destruction never before seen in a Stark armor. As a result, the technical improvements are outshined by the suit's destructive capabilities, but they are no less amazing. This armor has an improved force field, new communications equipment, and advanced Infrared sensors. Furthermore, advances in miniaturization allow the addition of a 20 watt, helmet-mounted, laser sighting/guidance system capable of tracking several targets at once. The outer armor itself has a polycarbon coating to blunt energy weapons.
The suit is prepared for total war, but was designed under the idea of "response in kind." Stark wanted a flexible armor that contained various levels of response for various threat levels. In that vein, the variably-configured Gauntlet Mini-Cannon contains eight kinds of specialty 3.9mm ammo: Spent Uranium Armor-Piercing, High Explosive, Concussion Type, High Temperature Thermite, Tear Gas, Tracer, Flare and Smoke. The cannon is capable of firing any of them at a moments notice.
An Electric Mini-Gun that can rest on the shoulder is deployed from the back. Similar to those found on military aircraft, the spiral-packed magazine carries 1,800 caseless, electrically primed 3.9mm spent-uranium core armor-piercing rounds. It can be set to fire 1 or 1,000 rounds per second. The War Machine also has an eight missile cache capable of launching a payload of different missiles according to mission: Anti-Tank, Anti-Ship, Spent Uranium Core Armor-Piercing, Flame Bomb, Fire Suppressant, Smoke, Tear Gas, Radio Repeater and a Sub-Nuke (equivalent to 1.8 kilotons of TNT).
Other features include: Improved low light vision sensors and an enhanced Battle Tactics computer. The suit also incorporates improved heat dissipation technology.
Armaments: Helmet-mounted Laser Sight, Gauntlet-mounted Flame Thrower, Chain Gun (aka Gauntlet Mini-Cannon, with mission selectable rounds), 30mm Palm Repulsors, Deployable Missile Box launcher and small 3.9mm Mini-Gun (both of which stow on back).
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A later model seen in issue 284, Model XI, Mark II, was built specifically for Jim Rhodes. It included small changes in the design meant to fine-tune the armor to match Rhodes' much more physical style of fighting. In addition, this new model had changes in the chestplate as Stark added an Enhanced Tri-Beam, a feature missing on his own War Machine armor. Another difference between the two is that Stark's first armor had a tube from the shoulder to the left gauntlet that was an ammunition shunt or power cord. The Model XI, Mark II does not have this feature.
The last feature that separates Rhodey's armor from the previous model is the multi-purpose weapons backpack, from which Rhodes deployed his pulse cannon, etc. as needed. The streamlined weapons pod allowed Rhodes to fight without the inconvenience of having weapons mounted on his shoulders all the time.
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The Eidolon Warwear System (Mark and Model info unknown), often known as the alien armor, was a gift from unknown aliens who apparently wished to give us a defender for Earth's coming battle with Kang the Conqueror. The black, orange and green battlesuit was an organic partner that sensed Rhodey's heroic nature and drew him near so that it could organically bond with him. Skye, a female alien sent to tutor Rhodes, was killed before revealing the secrets of the armor, so we know very little of the suit's origin. However we do know this:
The Eidolon Empire seems to have died out a long time ago, but the armor was the pinnacle of their military technology, the ultimate war machine. Xenotechnology, the warwear system needs an organic partner to function. It bonds with the partner at the genetic level and can not be separated from its host without killing the host. The resulting body glove-like suit has the ability to appear and disappear. In its dormant state the warwear leaves body bands on the skin known as Mandalas, symbols that mark the partner forever as an Eidolon Warrior.
Beyond the armor itself, the linking has other benefits. The suit also has the power to heal its wearer's injuries. This regenerative process is good since any severe damage done to the suit results in actual physical pain and injury to the wearer; They are joined in all things. Furthermore, Jim Rhodes acquired some sort of time travel sickness during the Zest Krieg storyline. The fatal condition was kept in stasis by the suit, leaving Rhodes unaffected, although the time disease did kill his good friend Sheva Joseph.
The warwear system itself was of an indeterminate age, although we know from War Machine's fight with the alien, Dirge, that the warwear systems can live for eons, even after their partner has passed on. When Rhodey linked to Dirge--a sort of Eidolon mindmeld--he also learned that the suit's themselves recall the experiences and thoughts of past partners. One can only imagine the secrets Rhodes would've unlocked had his adventures continued in his own monthly title.
Known abilities of this suit: Through means of unknown Eidolon technology, the suit has the ability to create, to "grow," any weapon that the wearer can imagine. In addition, the armor possess incredible speed and acceleration through unknown means of propulsion. The suit could also analyze chemical compounds through touch.
Armaments: Drone gun platforms that circle the right wrist, fully controlled by user. Shoulder deployed weapons platform that can grow whatever the user desires (e.g., concussion cannons, etc.).
You know you're in trouble when: As the suit went into battle, it would begin to sing. As Rhodey throttled opponents, the suit blasted out fearsome, alien battle songs that recalled its glorious combat of day's past.
According to a footnote that appeared in IRON MAN, Rhodes lost the Eidolon Warwear when he entered the SI computer network to delete all references to Iron Man and Stark's armor designs to prevent Stark-Fujikawa--or anyone else--from obtaining them after Tony Stark disappeared from this world. In some unknown way the armor was sacrificed to purge the data and Rhodey emerged, apparently, no worse for wear. This cyberspace confrontation was supposed to appear in TALES OF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE #2 a comic that was never published.
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If he uses normal War Machine system, he has good possibilities to beat Venom.
If he uses Eidolon Warwear, Venom is screwed.
Taken from here
Venom and Carnage pretty close..hahahahaha. The only thing that makes them close are that they are both symbiotes. other than that, Carnage is just more powerful. both in strength and abilities.
War Machine's Fire Suppressent missles alone would kill Venom. Fire suppressants extinguish fires by literally sucking all the oxygen from the area. When used on a person, it causes their lungs to fill up with liquid, drowning them.
Originally posted by Arachnoidfreak
[B War Machine's Fire Suppressent missles alone would kill Venom. Fire suppressants extinguish fires by literally sucking all the oxygen from the area. When used on a person, it causes their lungs to fill up with liquid, drowning them. [/B]
umm... you do realize that venom doesn't have to breathe, right?
That doesn't matter. Fill up any creature's lungs with liquids and they will die. Fill his lungs up enough, and they will burst, damaging his other organs, or he will start hemoragging from his mouth.
The fire suppressant sucks the air out of his lungs. The liquid is blood and other bodily fluids. That means some internal damage had to occur for him to start bleeding from the inside out.