Talk:Mark 49/@comment-29433749-20190526171921/@comment-65.101.78.59-20190607183748

Its not that wierd. Military aircraft are always being retrofitted and upgraded. Seems like the 49 has too. It isn't nano-tech but there is no reason Tony wouldn't upgrade the power plant and repulsors as he goes. From the 8-41 the armors were largely overhauls and putting components togeather to achieve a job. Many of the parts were the same accross far spaced models. And in some cases like the 30 31 and 33 Tony actually went back to the predeccessor and made them better than the new one resulting in the prototype (30) exceeding the newer brother (33). After the 41 Tnoy changed his approach...spending less effort on new and specialized models and focusing on longer uses and retrofits to existing models to balance his time on other projects. 43 was just an updated 42, 47 was just an updated 46. The 50-85 seems like a similar move. Since they are are all nano-tech now they can essentially all be the same suit...the programability and buildable nature means that essentially Tony just has to update the software to add new weapons to the nano-tech code.