Metal Gear (mecha)
Metal Gear' is a mecha that features in Metal Gear.
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History
Metal Gear (Japanese: メタルギア, Hepburn: Metaru Gia) were mobile weapon systems that were originally conceived by a Soviet weapons researcher named Aleksandr Leonovitch Granin who designed them as a way of bridging the gap between infantry and artillery. However, his views were dismissed by the Khrushchev regime and the Volgin faction of the GRU came to turn down his efforts at building it following failures in producing results quickly and effectively. Granin came to supply information about the Metal Gear to his American colleague Huey Emmerich who used the concept as part of his own work. Granin had even planned to send the entirety of his research to Emmerich shortly before his death. However, this was intercepted by the Philosopher's triple agent Revolver Ocelot with it being sent to a CIA Director as a future weapon for the U.S. government.
Within Outer Heaven, Solid Snake learnt Metal Gear's weakness after rescuing creator Dr. Drago Pettrovich Madnar and his daughter Ellen Madnar. The player must place a certain number of plastic explosives on Metal Gear's feet in the order stated by Dr. Madnar. Metal Gear is stored in a room guarded by two laser cams and never actually becomes operational; the final challenge is instead a battle with Outer Heaven's mystery leader and a race against time to escape the self-destructing base.
A new model Metal Gear REX designed by Dr. Hal Emmerich after being misled into believing that Metal Gear would be used as an anti-nuclear device that would be capable of safely shooting down nuclear missiles via a railgun system that shoots nuclear warheads. The weapon was produced by the U.S. Army on Shadow Moses Island, Alaska. Weapons company ArmsTech president Kenneth Baker bribes DARPA chief Donald Anderson to get covert U.S. Government funding for Metal Gear REX's development for the U.S. Army, and sends the single prototype to be tested at a nuclear weapons disposal facility on Shadow Moses Island. However, the Shadow Moses facility is taken over by rogue special forces unit FOXHOUND attempting to use REX as leverage to extort the U.S. Government. Solid Snake comes out of retirement and infiltrates the Shadow Moses facility in order to find out about REX. Liquid Snake and Revolver Ocelot intend to use REX to hold the world hostage. Later, Liquid uses REX to fight Snake. Snake, with the help of engineer Dr. Hal Emmerich and the Cyborg Ninja, eliminates FOXHOUND and destroys the mecha.
CIA contacts of the former CIA Director, Hot Coldman, also managed to procure the Metal Gear documents and send them to his employer. Coldman, with the documents he received, then recruited Huey Emmerich to design the various AI weapons, as well as the frame and weapons system for Peace Walker, while leading him to believe that it would not be fired even once. It was then used in various tests in Central America, until Huey defected upon learning that Coldman planned to launch a live nuke from Peace Walker. The various AI weapons were later destroyed by Big Boss's Militaires Sans Frontières, and Peace Walker eventually ended up sacrificing itself to stop the transmission of false data to NORAD. Later, Huey and Strangelove were commissioned by the MSF to help build their own Metal Gear, codenamed ZEKE. However, it was hijacked by a spy for Cipher, who was behind most of the Peace Walker Incident, and ended up heavily damaged. The United States in the meantime abandoned the idea of Metal Gear being a true revolutionary weapon for the time being.
Overview
In appearance, the Metal Gear were a type of all-terrain, nuclear-equipped, walking battle tank that were capable of launching a nuclear warhead from anywhere on the planet. Its creator envisioned a machine that bridged the gap between infantry and artillery in that it provided firepower to a walking tank that possessed the mobility of soldiers. A key component of a Metal Gear was its nuclear capabilities.
Units
- Metal Gear : the TX-55 Metal Gear was
- Metal Gear REX : Unlike previous Metal Gears, its legs were heavily armored and reinforced. Metal Gear REX has near-impenetrable compound armor, a pair of 30 mm gatling guns, anti-tank missiles, and a free-electron laser, to protect itself from conventional forces. Its primary weapon, however, is a magnetic railgun capable of delivering an untraceable nuclear warhead anywhere in the world, without the propellant trail or launch flare that gives away the launch position of a traditional ballistic missile. It also possessed a radome, a satellite antenna-shaped object on REX's left side that provides information about the environment outside of the cockpit while keeping the pilot safe from harm, and increasing the accuracy of all weapons as well. Destroying the radome is crucial to rendering the virtual reality interface useless and forcing the pilot to manually control REX. The pilot is also forced to expose himself to enemy fire, by opening the cockpit in order to see outside
- Metal Gear RAY : a Metal Gear originally developed for the United States Marine Corps. It is technically not a Metal Gear it lacks any form of nuclear armament. It is, however, a Metal Gear by Granin's initial definition of a bipedal tank. Nevertheless, it was originally created under the premise of nuclear strategy. In addition, it did serve as part of a true Metal Gear's 'conventional' armament - Arsenal Gear. RAY was designed and developed by the Pentagon and the Marines in 2007 as a countermeasure to the abundance of Metal Gear REX derivatives being developed due to REX's plans being leaked onto the black market after 2005. For this reason, it was, until the creation of the Gekko, the only Metal Gear designed for close-range battle. RAY is notable for being the first attempt at Metal Gear mass-production. The Patriots (via the U.S. Navy) produced twenty-five mass-produced Metal Gear RAY units to serve as guards for Arsenal Gear in 2009. They differed from the original RAY in that they were unmanned (the original intention of the Marine Corps), had no tail and were slightly smaller.
- Arsenal Gear : a massive Metal Gear developed for the U.S. Navy. It was considered to be an evolutionary step ahead of all previous Metal Gears, functioning as a submersible warship instead of a bipedal tank. While capable of the same covert long-range nuclear attacks that define Metal Gears, this was merely a layer of its numerous defenses. Its true threat lay in its ability to conduct information warfare through the use of its onboard artificial intelligence (GW) in 2009.
- Metal Gear ZEKE :
- Metal Gear EXCELSUS :
Notes
- The Metal Gears were created by Hideo Kojima where they featured in the Metal Gear universe.
Appearances
- Metal Gear Solid:
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