This article is a work in progress; It is currently not approved as canon.
The Winter II is capable of holding conventional hand-held weapons: Both at its own frame scale, the scale of larger frames, and personnel scale (using the personnel scale arms built into the chest). To support this function the palms include interlocks to pass resources and information to carried equipment.
In addition, loading claws are included on the hip-fins to facilitate secondary weapons mounts: One either side making four total designed to be compatible with most fighter hard-points.
Importantly, the arms of the Winter II are quite unusual.
Fitted devices are fitted to stationary hardpoints on the body of the frame. They typically include mobility or sensor enhancements, extra armour plating or mission payloads. Importantly, they tend to be highly specific based on mission objective and their loadout can rapidly be tailored and swapped out at a moment's notice.
(Needs to have hardpoint locations listed or to be combined with another section.)
Located around the joints, the Winter II has a number of circular mounting slots for specialist equipment. Here, armor or extension devices may be mounted, which have direct access to the frame's power supply. These slots are located above and below both the elbows and knees of the frame.
The default mount for cavity fittings is the mercury defense system.
Upon the back of the Winter II is an armature: a hardpoint on an arm designed to support a large and heavy extension for the frame. It features a direct energy exchange system and can lock either against the tailbone or behind the shoulders of the frame.
Mounted in cavities on the fore-arms and legs, optional support systems are directly powered by the frame's generator and are very structurally secure.