The metallic tentacles, which hang below the main fighting machine body, are used as probes and to grasp objects. The fighting machines can also discharge steam through nozzles that dissipates the black smoke, which then settles as an inert, powdery substance. The fighting machines are armed with a heat-ray, which is fired by a camera-like device held by an articulated arm, and a chemical weapon known as "the black smoke", a poison gas which is deployed from gun tubes. The fighting machines walk on three tall, articulated legs and have a grouping of long, whip-like metallic tentacles hanging beneath the central body, a single flexible appendage holding the heat-ray projector, and atop the main body a brazen hood-like head that houses a sole Martian operator. It is the primary machine the Martians use when they invade Earth, along with the handling machine, the flying machine, and the embankment machine. In the novel, it is a fast-moving three-legged walker reported to be 100 feet (30.48 meters) tall with multiple whip-like tentacles used for grasping, and two lethal weapons: the Heat-Ray and a gun-like tube used for discharging canisters of a poisonous chemical black smoke that kills humans and animals. Wells' 1898 classic science fiction novel The War of the Worlds. The fighting machine (also known as a " Martian Tripod") is one of the fictional machines used by the Martians in H.G.
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