They are usually seen adorned in heavy, segmented plate-armour that covers the shouders, chest, upper back, lower sides, and thighs. They also wear gauntlets, shin guards, helmets and face masks that are designed to act like respirators to combat poison regularly used by shinobi, and to communicate using inbuilt radios. Senior officers having short horns atop of their helmets to identify themselves. Like real samurai, they are armed with swords but the scabbards of these are instead mounted directly onto their faulds. However, the number of blades worn by a single warrior is also unusual, going as high as four.