Furthermore it's made clear that the baseline models did gradually improve with time, as evidenced by the numerous redundant timelines observed between Salvation and Genisys SkyNET simply had numerous iterations to improve the design. It's evident that a near total machine has an advantage over an organic human, no matter how augmented the organic components are. * Forgetting their significant increase in small arms resistance (to the point that an entire parade of police armed with anything from assault rifles, machine pistols, shotguns to pistols failed to notably inconvenience him), Cyborgs can and have survived point blank detonations from HEDP rounds on multiple occasions. The '92 variant was capable of firing into a crowded parking lot with numerous casualty producing weapons and managed to fail to produce a single casualty - on purpose.ДЄn aimbot assassin with superior strength depending on the iteration, resilience and none of the limitations imposed upon organisms is nowhere near a pushover in this scenario. In addition, Terminators are fantastic shots. The pipe bombs Reese made were way bigger than a grenade.

Also before we inevitably go into the discussion concerning the 40mm, even a small pipe of plastique is actually a shitload of explosives. For example, we know the Terminators have become more and more powerful with each iteration due to time travel shenanigans*, so the variants seen in earlier movies appear to be weaker than later movies, hence why in earlier films they can be stunned by small arms fire - whereas later iterations of the same model appear to shrug it off. Their bodies can shrug off close proximity high explosive detonations, and AM rounds that can punch through vehicle armor to the weaker eye lenses are considered necessary to destroy them.

Unlike Bucky, wounding shots would be of no use against a Terminator - it's either total destruction of critical components or nothing.

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