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Design Notes :

Shell Composition: Rigid interior/3-D knitted metallic exterior provided protection from physical attacks as well as acid, heat, cold, most forms of energy, radiation, and electricity. A 3-D knitting pattern on a submolecular construction level gives the armor itself more strength, while allowing for the most comfortable suit interior.
Power Source and Energy Information: Most of this armor used solar power to charge the batteries and run most of the integrated circuitry. However, the pods on the sides were batteries that could maintain the suits functions for a short time. It was able to recharge itself from electrical sources,a thermocouple to syphon power from extreme heat or cold, and solar power.
Control Systems Interface: Cybernetic interface and battle computer (Mark 2).
Weaponry:
*Unibeam (Mark 3): Multi-band light and force beam emitter. Can be adjusted for a variety of effects such as search light, heat beams, tractor beam, lasers, image inducers, and ultraviolet light.
*Sonic Emitter: Generates and broadcasts high frequency sound waves.
*Palm Repulsors (Mark 3): Laser-guided particle beam emission units mounted in the palm of each hand.
*Pulse Bolts: High energy plasma discharge "torpedos" that build in intensity as they travel through the aptmosphere, picking up static and ambient energy. However, they are slow-moving projectiles, easily dodged.
*Heat Beam.
*Disruptor Field.
*Sonic Distorter.
Equipment:
*Life Support Equipment: The eye and mouth hole slits could be sealed. The suit had an indefinite supply of recycled air, water, and nutrients.
*Boot Jets (Mark 4): Incorporates high-speed duo-source turbines in the boots.
*Booster Pack: A separate twin engine rocket system. It enables the armor to attain speeds up to 750mph in the air and 180mph in the water.
*Force Field: By expanding the field that keeps the armor rigid, the armor can encase itself in a protective force field that is effective against most forms of attack. He can also use this field to polarize the armor to either attract or repulse other items of magnetic polarity.
*Voice Distorter.
*Subterranean Equipment.
*Absorption Field Grid.
*Hologram Emitter: Generates 12 simultaneous images of the armor. It is used to confuse the enemy - he is unable to identify the real armor allowing Iron Man an attack advantage. It could also be used to generate a "chameleon field" around itself. The computer in the armor would analyze its surroundings and generate a hologram to make it blend in with the surroundings making it effectively invisible visually and to cameras.
*ECM Equipment: The outer coating of the armor absorbs the signals from both radar and sonar making the armor invisible to those forms of detection.
Sensors: Full Band Transceiver, both Audio and Visual; Radar; Sonar; Infrared; Electrical/Magnetic: By measuring the variences in the magnetic fields in structures, the armor could reverse engineer a chematis of the layout of where power lines ran inside of the walls and overlay the layout onto the visual display inside the helmet.