Fire Warrior - Standard Issue: T'au technology is among the most advanced of any starfaring species in the galaxy, behind that utilised by the Aeldari and the Necrons. Each Fire Warrior is armed with the Pulse Rifle and a ceremonial T'au Bonding Knife. Basic Fire Warrior armour includes shoulder plates, thigh guards, chest guard, a helmet, and vambraces. The helmet provides infra-red capability, displays remaining ammunition, and the status of the suit of armor as a whole. Fire warriors may also equip themselves with a smaller Pulse Carbine, a weapon that, despite its less-efficient practical combat range compared to the Pulse Rifle, has a slower, but more stable firing rate. In addition to this the Pulse Carbine has an underslung Grenade Launcher, that fires Photon Grenades to disorientate enemies.Fire Warriors also have the ability to call indirect missile fire from projectile platforms in the form of Sky Ray and Hammerhead gunships, to handle enemy armour. Pathfinders also have hardwired beams that upload battle information to Team Leaders and T'au vehicle commanders, greatly increasing their battle accuracy.Veteran Fire Warriors of the shas'vre and shas'el ranks are armoured in T'au Battlesuits. These suits of powered armour provide a significant increase in maneuverability thanks to hardwired Jetpacks, while also increasing the flexibility of the trooper due to hardwired fire points. Lighter suits also have the ability to use shields that disrupt the outline of the trooper, effectively making them invisible. With their battlesuits, Fire Warriors can mount heavier weaponry, and stabilisers built into these battlesuits allow this weaponry to be fired while moving. The weaponry of a battlesuit trooper is diverse, allowing them to engage a wide spectrum of enemies, from heavily armoured Adeptus Astartes to the main battle tanks of the Astra Militarum.As the scientists of the T'au Earth Caste do not consider science and technology to be elements of the sacred like the Tech-priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus, T'au plasma weaponry is highly advanced. It does not suffer from a tendency to overheat like Imperial plasma weapons, and so can be fired without endangering the user. However, T'au plasma weaponry has a slower rate of fire than its Imperial equivalents.Jet technology is used extensively by the T'au Empire and this is reflected in the vehicles available to the warriors of the Fire Caste. Devilfish APCs, Sky Rays, Hammerheads, Piranhas, Gun Drones and T'au Battlesuits use this technology as a form of propulsion, allowing teams of Fire Warriors to deploy rapidly and T'au gunships to hover across the battlefield.Rail Gun technology is also extensively used by the military forces of the T'au Empire. The Hammerhead Gunship's main turret weapon is a Rail Gun, while T'au voidships are equipped with extremely powerful Rail Cannons that can punch through conventional ceramite armour like toilet tissue. The Earth Caste also dabbled with the development of man-portable Rail Gun technology, but field tests exhibited dangerous risks to the user, overheating the Fire Warrior helmet HUD because the power source for these Rail Rifles was too unstable for a hand-held weapon system. Improved Rail Gun technology has allowed T'au Pathfinders the use of Rail Rifles that are used as sniper weapons.