Weapons and Vehicles of the Imperium of Man

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This article is a list of Military Equipment of the Imperium of Man, including the Imperial Guard, Space Marines, Inquisition and other ground forces. As well as their usage by the forces of the Imperium, many of these weapons are also employed by the forces of Chaos, by the Gue'vesa auxiliaries of the Tau Empire and Looted examples are used heavily by the Orks.

Vehicles

• Leman Russ Tank-The Standard Main Battle Tank of the Imperium of Man, the Leman Russ is a cheap and reliable vehicle that can be produced in large quantities easily by most Forgeworlds and billions of these vehicles are used by the Imperial Guard. It is capable of operating in most environments and can run on a wide variety of diferent fuels, but is cramped and uncomforable for its crew to work in. The standard Mars pattern Leman Russ is equipped with a Battlecannon and three sponsons (one on each side, one in front) which can mount either a Lascannon or a Heavy Bolter, although many variants of the Leman Russ exist to fill specialized roles such as anti aircraft vehicles or using advanced weaponry specifically made on certain forgeworlds.

The Leman Russ is named for the Primarch of the Space Wolves Chapter of Space Marines.

• Baneblade Heavy Tank-The Baneblade is an advanced Tank fielded by the Imperium. An ancient Standard Template Construct design, Baneblades are larger and is far more heavily armed, carrying eleven weapons for artillery, anti infantry and anti vehicle work as well as having superior armor to the Leman Russ. However, it is a far more complicated design and only a handful of forgeworlds can produce these vehicles and as such their numbers are severely limited. Each Baneblade given an name by the Adeptus Mechanicus.

Like the Leman Russ, Several diferent vehicles are based off of the Baneblade Chassis.

• Leman Russ Demolisher

• Chimera APC-The Chimera is the standard Armored Personnel Carrier of the Imperial Guard. Like the Leman Russ it is cheap to produce and easy to maintain and is employed in massive numbers. Chimeras can move up to twelve soldiers into the battlefeild. For protection and fire support to infantry forces, Chimeras are armed with either a Multilaser or a Heavy Bolter, as well as gunports for their crews to fire from.

The Chimera Chassis is used as the basis for a multitude of Imperial Military Vehicles.

• Basilisk Self Propelled Artillery Vehicle-The Basilisk is a vehicle based off the Chimera Chassis. Produced in large numbers, Basilisks carry massive Earthshaker Cannons and are the main mobile artillery of the Imperial Guard. Most Basilisks have an open bay in which the Arillery crew works, leaving them vunerable to attack and shell fragments, although some compartiviely rare Basilisk varients do exist with enclosed chambers for artillery crews.

• Land Raider-Land Raiders are powerful Standard Template Construct armored fighting vehicles used by the Space Marines. These Vehicles serve as both Tanks, carrying heavy Lascannons mounted in side sponsons capable of Reducing enemy vehicles to Slag as well as serving as armored personnel carriers, ferrying spacemarines into the heat of battle. Each Land Raider is painstakingly crafted. Land Raiders posses an Artificial Intelligence that is capable of fighting even if their crew is killed. As well as the standard Land Raider, several varients exist armed with Artillery missiles and Flamers.

Currently, Land Raiders are exclusively used by the Space Marines, but this was not always the case. In the early days of the Imperium, Land Raiders were used by Marine and Guardsmen as large numbers of the vehicles were produced on the forgeworld of Anvilus 9. During the Horus Heresy the planet was taken by Chaos Corrupted Techpriests and was devestated. The Result of which was that Land Raider production nearly completely haulted. As such, the Emperor ordered that Land Raiders were (For the time being) were only to be used by the Space Marines. Before this order was recinded, the Emperor was crippled and made his ascention to the Golden Throne and no-one dared to violate his word.

• Rhino APC-The Rhino APC is an Advanced imperial Armored Personnel Carrier. A Standard Template Construct design, the Rhino APC is considerably more durable than the Chimera. However it is also harder to produce, each being painstakingly crafted on dedicated forgeworlds and their use is limited to a few prominent organizations, including the Space Marines, Inquisition and the Adepta Sororitas.

Like the Chimera, the Rhino Chassis is the basis of a number of military vehicles used by the armed forces.

• Hellhound-Hellhounds are a specialized support vehicle based on the Chimera Chassis used by the Imperial Guard. Hellhounds are armed with a Heavy Flame weapons known as Inferno cannons.

• Predator Tank-Based of the Chassis of the Rhino APC, the Predator is the primary tank used by Space Marines. While not as durable as a Land Raider, Predators offer armored support to the forces of the Adeptus Astartes. Predators have turret mounted Las Weapons as well as sponsons which can either be fitted with Lascannons or Heavy Bolters.

• Sentinel Scout Vehicle-Sentinels are lightly armored bipedal walkers used as scouts, raiders and light support vehicles. Sentinels are cheap and can be produced in large numbers. Sentinels have a hardpoint for various weapons, most commonly a Lascannon, but it can be fitted with a variety of weaponry, including Heavy Bolters, Flamers and Missile Launchers and those in service of Gue'vesa forces have begun equipping their sentinels with Tau Weaponry more commonly found on Tau Battlesuits.

• Land Speeder-Land Speeders are fast moving antigrav vehicles employed by the Space Marines. These Standard Template Construct vehicles carry a crew of two and can mount a variety of weapons, including autocannons, heavy bolters and missile launchers. Land Speeders are fast, but are comparitively poorly armored when compared to most other space marine vehicles. The knowlage to produce these vehicles has been lost to the Adpetus Mechanicus, as such replacements are non existant.

• Dreadnought-Dreadnoughts are technically not vehicles, but are on their scale. Dreandoughts are effectively massive tombs for fallen space marines. Inside each Dreadnought is an ancient space marine champion who had been fatally wounded who is linked up to the machine's life support and controls it via a cybernetic uplink, allowing him to continue to serve the Imperium of Man. Dreadnoughts are massive bipedal machines armed with a variety of weapons, including flamers, Autocannons, Lascannons and missile launchers, as well as powerful claws designe to rip through tank armor and crush infantry. Many Dreadnoughts are milenia old and are revered among the space marines. Like with the Land Speeder, the knowlage to make these machines has been lost to time and have become even more irreplacable among the forces of the Imperium.

• Titans

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Weapons

• Bolt Weaponry-Bolt Weapons are a type of projectile weapon used by the Imperium of man. Bolt Weapons are smoothbore guns that fire specialized ammunition, known as Bolts. Bolts have two stages of propulsion. The first is a rather standard explosive charge inside the cartridge, the second is inside the actual bolt, which contains a rocket engine that ignites after the bolt has cleared the barrel. This gives bolts superior firepower over more conventional projectile weapons. Many different variants of Bolts are used for specialist, the most common with this is an armor piercing high explosive rounds with others including armor piercing, incendiary, fragmentation as well as even more exotic forms of bolt, including bolts with prayers inscribed onto them to be effective against Daemons and Psionic threats. The Standard Caliber of most Imperial Bolt Weapons is 0.75 Inches, or roughly 19 millimeters with heavy bolters having that increased to 1 Inch.

The Imperial Space Marines make heavy use of Bolt Weapons as their standard small arms. Due to the expense of manufacturing them and their ammunition and being high maintenance systems, Bolt Weapons are generally not issued as small arms to the Imperial Guard, although they are used by the Guard as Heavy Machine guns as both tripod mounted weapons and as Vehicle weapons. As well, a few Elite soldiers, commanding officers and Imperial Commissars are equipped with Bolt Pistols.

• Las Weaponry-Imperial Laser weapons are among the most common weaponry used by the Imperium of Man in many forms ranging from infantry small arms to capital ship level weapons.

The Standard Infantry Weapon of the Imperial Guard is the Lasgun, a cheap, reliable and easy to manufacture Laser Rifle powered by rechargeable energy cells. The firepower of the standard Lasgun is 19 Megajoules per shot, more powerful sniper rifle variants exist, sacrificing rate of fire for sheer firepower. Despite being more powerful than modern projectile weapons, Lasguns have lackluster firepower when compared with many weapons in the Warhammer 40,000 universe and are often pejoratively referred to as "Flashlights". Larger, more powerful versions known as Lascannons are often used as anti-tank weapons. Fully automatic versions of Imperial laser technology are known as Multilasers.

A more advanced form of Las Weaponry exists are Hell Weapons, which offer greater power but are more costly to produce and somewhat harder to maintain. Hellguns are generally issued to Elite soldiers, such as Imperial Stormtroopers. Hellguns are powered by backpack mounted power cells.

• Plasma Weaponry-The Imperium makes use of Plasma Weaponry, but it is a very unrefined technology. While an Imperial Plasma Gun offers greater firepower than Las or Bolt weaponry of comparable scale or even comparably scaled Pulse Weapons of the Tau Empire, Imperial Plasma weapons are dangerously unstable and all too often they literally blow up in their user's face. This, combined with high production costs severely limit the Imperium's usage of Plasma Weapons.

The Imperium makes use of both Handheld Plasma Rifles and Pistols, as well as equipping it on Leman Russ Executioners, a vehicle which has crews that have a reputation for being insane.

• Flame Weaponry-The Imperium of man makes heavy usage of flamethrowers making use of an advanced fuel known as Prometheum. Flamers range from small arms to heavy units known as heavy flamers and Inferno weapons. Flamethrowers often hold some religious significance being seen as the Emperor's fury cleansing evil with fire. Among the groups that make heavy usage of Flame Weaponry are the Salamanders Chapter of Space Marines, Catachan Jungle fighters and the forces of the Adepta Sororitas. Several Vehicles, including Hellhounds, Catachan patern Sentinels and Immolators are also equiped with Flamers.

• Melta Weaponry

• Melee Weaponry-For close combat, the Imperium of Man employs a variety of weapons, ranging from simple combat knives to advanced systems involving such as Chainswords and forcefield equipped blades able to slice through tank armor.

• Grenades

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Miscellaneous Equipment

• Power Armor

• Terminator Armor

• Carapace Armor

• Flak Armor

• Jetpacks

• Drop Pods

• Grav Chutes

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