Arms and Hardware

Arms

Arms noun - Weapons considered collectively.

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Hardware and arms are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Hardware" instead a noun "Arms".

Hardware noun - Major items of military weaponry (as tanks or missile).

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Arms and hardware are semantically related. You can use "Arms" instead a noun "Hardware".

old	old arms	old hardware
similar	similar arms	similar hardware
right	right arms	right hardware
standard	standard arms	standard hardware
Other adjectives: original, open, small, powerful, actual, real, new, extra, additional, different, various, modern, soviet.

Another viable strategy: using all the hardware space in your 'Mech's arms for ammo, since live ammo in the Mechwarrior games reacts ...badly... to incoming fire or overheating.

Source: Unusual Weapon Mounting
Those defensive sniper turrets need ammunition and repairs, and ferrying the ammo to them will take power and hardware (either robotic transfer arms or flying logistics drones), which in turn needs its own resources.

Source: Easy Logistics
Word of God is that this was actually a space-saving shortcut; eliminating Rayman's arms freed up precious kilobytes that could be used elsewhere, making this a latter-day throwback to Mario's character design, which was also influenced by the hardware's capabilities.

Source: Floating Limbs

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