War Machine Armor: Mark I

"You've been very busy. You made your girl your CEO, you're giving away all your stuff. You let your friend fly away with your suit. Now, if I know better..." "You don't know better. I didn't give it to him. He took it."

- Nick Fury and Tony Stark

The War Machine Armor or JRXL-1000 Variable Threat Response Battle Suit is the heavily armed armor used by James Rhodes aka War Machine. It was originally Tony Stark's Mark II armor.

History
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. He took it? You're Iron Man and he just took it? The little brother walked in there, kicked your ass and took your suit? Is that possible?"

- Nick Fury to Tony Stark

On Tony's birthday, he got drunk and is endangering the lives of the party attendants so James Rhodes attacked him in the Mark II armor and won in a one-on-one brawl. After the fight he took the armor to an U.S. Air Force base. After he took it there they called Justin Hammer so he can add more powerful weapons to the armor. After he edited it they took the armor to the Stark Expo so they could present it there with the Hammer Drones. Stark arrived in his latest armor, the Mark VI, to reclaim the Mark II along with confronting his foes. He tried to force Hammer to reveal Vanko's location and get Rhodes to help him in his mission. However, Vanko took control of the armor and the Hammer Drones to kill Stark. The War Machine chased the Mark VI around the Expo before it was beaten in combat by the Mark VI. Eventually with the help of Romanoff, Rhodey was able to get control of the armor and help Tony defeat the rest of the Hammer Drones and Vanko in his Mark II Whiplash armor.

After the battle, Rhodes took the armor for "security purposes" without complete objection from Tony. Later, the armor was stripped off of all Hammer weapons upgrades by Stark, considering it an insult and created a new War Machine armor for his best friend.

Abilities
Even before weaponization, the armor (formerly the Mark II) was capable of battling Stark who was in the Mark IV. Upon being weaponized by Hammer, it was updated to the Variable Threat Battlesuit. In addition to the increased physical capabilities the suit brings like superhuman strength, reflexes and durability, it also has repulsors like Stark's suit. In addition, the suit is armed to the teeth with weaponry such as a minigun, rocket launcher and built-in submachineguns int the gauntlets.Its also improved its flight capability it has thrusters at its calf.

Claridge Hi-Tec 9mm Semi-Automatic Pistol - United States

 * Semi-automatic
 * 9mm parabellum ammunition
 * Blowback reload capabilities
 * Barrel Length: 127mm
 * Effective Range: 50m
 * Cooling fin muzzle extension

M24 Shotgun (Variant Proprietary to Hammer) - United States

 * Bolt-Action
 * 12-gauge
 * Five-round magazine
 * Barrel Length: 180mm
 * Double-action
 * Laser sight

FN F2000 Tactical - Belgium

 * Selective fire
 * 850 rpm (rounds per minute)
 * 5.56mm NATO ammunition
 * 30-round STANAG magazine
 * Gas-operated rotating bolt
 * Barrel Length: 400mm
 * Effective Range: 400m
 * Tactical scope
 * Special feeds
 * Cooling slots

Milkor MGL 40mm Grenade Launcher - South Africa

 * 2 rounds per second (Rapid fire)
 * 18 rounds per minute (Sustained fire)
 * 40mm grenade ammunition
 * 6-round revolving cylinder
 * Double Action
 * Barrel Length: 400mm
 * Effective Range: 400m

M134 7.62mm Minigun - United States

 * 7.62mm ammunition
 * Electronically driven motor breech
 * Electronic linkless feed system
 * 6,000 rounds per minute
 * Barrel Length: 555mm
 * Six individual barrels
 * Nicknames: "Uncle Gazpacho" & "Puff the Magic Dragon"
 * Equipped with 9,000 rounds
 * Flash suppressor

Sidewinder "Ex-Wife" Self-Guided Missile (Propertry of Hammer Industries)

 * Kinetic-Kill Sidewinder missile
 * Bunker Buster
 * Cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine/RDX burst
 * Laser-guided
 * Self-charged
 * Infrared tracking
 * 6 inches (152mm) long