Plasma weaponry

Plasma beams as seen during the Future War

Plasma weaponry is a directed-energy weapon technology used by both the Resistance and Skynet during the Future War.

Personal pistols, rifles, sniper rifles, shotguns, miniguns, cannons, crew-served weapons, and many varieties of vehicular-mounted heavy weapons are operational throughout the battlefields of the Future War. With the advent of time travel interrupting the timeline with both knowledge and even actual artifacts of future technologies, the exact date of introduction to plasma weaponry is entirely uncertain.

Known Plasma Weapons

Modified Conventional Weapons

Contemporary plasma rifle / Isotope weapon, with parts from the Thompson SMG

Plasma Browning M2HB Terminator Genisys

Plasma Weaponry

HK-Aerial

HK-Tank

HK-Tank

HK-Flying Mini Hunter

General Dynamics RBS-80

Phased Plasma Pistol
Phased Plasma Rifle
Phased Plasma Cannon
The Terminator: Future Shock

FK Reaper's Heavy plasma gun

Plasma SMG from Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines video game (Image needed)

Plasma grenade from Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines video game and Terminator 3: War of the Machines (Image needed)

Notes

• A HK-Tank mounted version of this weapon appeared to have the power to violently blow a human body into several charred pieces upon impact.
• Skynet's Central Core Installation at Cheyenne Mountain was defended from large scale rebel assaults by massive phased plasma cannons.
• The T-X Terminator was the first design to successfully incorporate onboard weaponry into a Terminator or Infiltrator capable of deployment via Time Displacement Equipment. All previous temporal transport of advanced weaponry involved the use of willing or unwilling organic carriers, or simply utilizing future-tech knowledge on contemporary materials.
• In The Sarah Connor Chronicles timeline, plasma weaponry began to be used around 2021.^{[Episode needed]}
• The contemporary plasma rifle appears to utilize some form of isotope either as a power source or as ammunition.
• It is possible that plasma weapons accelerate a bolt of superheated hydrogen plasma to high speed using magnetic induction technology such as the coilgun or the railgun. Although this is purely speculation it represents a scientifically plausible possibility.
• The Series 800 Terminator was vulnerable against plasma attacks, so in 2027, Skynet decided to harden the T-800 against plasma attacks. ^{[citation needed]} This resulted in the creation of the Series 850 Terminator.

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See also

• Plasma reactor - another application of the plasma technology
• Laser weaponry - another directed-energy weapon

External links

• Terminator, The (1984) - Internet Movie Firearms Database
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Internet Movie Firearms Database
• Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines - Internet Movie Firearms Database
• Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles - Internet Movie Firearms Database
• Terminator: Genisys - Internet Movie Firearms Database