The suit is made of a special iron-titanium alloy, coated with a clear liquid resin developed by Dr. Manhattan. This allows it to stay off of most radar and tracking equipment, as well as withstand intense heat and cold. The mechanized exoskeleton grants the wearer strength "equal to that of ten gorillas" - the descriptor never changed in the comic, but the strength level fluctuated strangely, often in the span of a single issue. The suit is also equipped with twin sub-machine guns, a collapsible minigun, and a grenade launcher modified to launch miniaturized "Manhattan bombs."