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While the enhancements have not been described in detail, they incorporate technologies originating from the prior [[SPARTAN programs]] as well as completely new additions.<ref name="HI2"/> However, because the SPARTAN-IVs are designed to rely more heavily on their [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor (GEN2)|GEN2 MJOLNIR armor]], their performance-enhancing physical augmentations are less extensive than those of their predecessors;<ref name="frankie"/> for example, the neural augmentation utilized in the previous programs, which provided the SPARTAN-IIs and SPARTAN-IIIs their superhuman reaction times, is absent.<ref group="note">When describing her augmentations in ''Halo: Initiation'', Sarah Palmer mentions neither enhancements to her nervous system nor a marked decrease in her reaction time while listing several procedures with far less immediately conspicuous effects. One may infer that this particular enhancement, despite its improvements between the SPARTAN-II and SPARTAN-III programs, still cannot be safely applied on adults, due to its history of having the highest risk out of all other augmentations given to the SPARTAN-IIs and SPARTAN-IIIs. Since the original MJOLNIR armor would kill a human with an unaugmented reaction time, one may infer that this deficiency has been overcome in the MJOLNIR GEN2 armor; still, Spartan Gabriel Thorne notes in [[Gabriel Thorne's journal|his journal entry]] that the augmentations are in part so he "could survive using the armor", implying that GEN2 is still not completely safe for baseline humans.</ref>

|Bones are infused with a substance which makes them virtually unbreakable, allowing survival in harder impacts<ref name="HI2"/><ref group="note">This enhancement is likely derived from the carbide ceramic ossification catalyst drug given to the SPARTAN-IIIs.</ref>

|Muscles are injected with a material that allows them to work harder without breaking the Spartan's skeleton<ref name="HI2"/><ref group="note">This enhancement may have been derived from the fibroid muscular protein complex drug given to the SPARTAN-IIIs, although given Frank O'Connor's {{Plain|[http://members.shaw.ca/laird2/temp/derp/interview.mp3 statement]}} about the inferiority of the SPARTAN-IVs' "mechanical" augmentations, it is likely to be less effective than the chemical given to the two previous Spartan generations, or has less potent effects due to the SPARTAN-IVs' adult physiques, much like some of the augmentations in the ORION Project. Aside from Frank O'Connor's statement, it can be inferred that the material grafted onto the subjects muscles' allows them to work three times harder, due to a Spartan IV being able to "outrun a horse". The average human can run at about 10 to 12 mph, which would imply that a IVs' speed would have to have been increased by about three times.</ref>

|Corneal implants are provided to improve night vision<ref name="HI2"/><ref group="note">This enhancement is likely derived from the retina-inversion stabilizer drug given to the SPARTAN-IIIs.</ref>

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|Subject is implanted with several monitoring devices to help medical teams keep tabs on them<ref name="HI2"/>