Talk:Heroes and Monsters/@comment-32.209.96.250-20160209003600/@comment-26403517-20160209144903

It's pretty clear that General Ironwood had to have survived a massive trama that cost him a significant portion of his body. Perhaps in a future volume that story will be told.

As for what powers that amount of cybernetics, there is of course the easy explaination of Dust. Also, remember when we were first introduced to him, he added something to the coffee Professor Ozpin gave him. That possibly may have been a form of fuel or lubricant for his cybernetic parts.