Armored Suit

Arm Suits, labeled elsewhere as Armored Suits, are bulky walking frames wrapped in heavy plating and driven as powered exoskeletons. They serve as mobile weapon platforms, and several separate models turn up across the setting, divided between Japanese military and coast-guard designs and a Russian variant.

The GSDF Type 1 arrived as a later slave-type frame, set apart by its ability to be run remotely. That feature drew little interest and was eventually stripped from every arm-slave, leaving the Type 1 as the final unit to include it. Operators could drive it through a cyberbrain link or by feeding in commands by hand, though large, weapon-carrying remote machines never really caught on. Its arms extended outward for an extra five feet of reach, a trait the Russian Dazhbogs would later borrow.

Built on the Type 1 template, the Russian Dazhdbog abandoned any resemblance to the human body. It sports oversized arms, a set of rear-mounted limbs that speed up its movement, and a weapon rig fixed to the exterior. Its awkward hands cannot grip weapons the way other suits do, but the long arms still add roughly five feet of reach. A 7.62 Gatling cannon rides on its back and rotates to fire down between the two heavy legs. Rather than a slave system like the 303, the pilot works entirely from controls seated in the bulky torso, while the rear limbs carry bracing arms for the main gun.

The MSDF Type 303 serves the Japanese Coast Guard and Navy and stands as the top arm-slave in GSDF hands, having spread across the globe. It carries a single 20mm machine cannon alongside a 40mm grenade launcher, both held in the hands so they swap out with ease. Control comes from direct physical motion: the pilot's limbs move through matching miniature appendages that end in their own hands, and the connecting strings can be severed so that only the small master limbs operate, granting no boost in strength. The suit also mounts thermo-optic camouflage.

Type 303 units turn up with the Narcotics Suppression Squad and with the Umibozu, on top of their standard Coast Guard and Navy deployment. Across the franchise a Tachikoma is also shown trading blows with a Dazhdbog.