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Metal Gear is the name for a series of fictional bipedal tanks in the Metal Gear series of video games. Initially, the different models of Metal Gear were mobile launch platforms with nuclear weapons with an intercontinental range, serving the purpose of rail or wheeled nuclear platforms, but with greater mobility and greater ability to defend itself from traditional threats. Typically, the final objective in each of the Metal Gear games is to destroy the latest incarnation of the Metal Gear.

Models of Metal Gear (canonical)

Metal Gear TX-55

The original Metal Gear (featured in the eponymous first installment), sometime referred by its full codename Metal Gear TX-55 (or alternatively, TX-55 Metal Gear), was designed at Outer Heaven by the Eastern scientist Dr. Drago Petrovich Madnar. Dr. Madnar was forced against his will to complete the development of the tank, after his daughter was held for blackmail. Metal Gear's weakspot were its feet, which could only be destroyed by placing plastic explosives over them in a determined order. The TX-55 was armed with a 15mm vulcan gun, a 20mm laser cannon and multiple medium-range warheads. However, none of its arsenal was put to use, as the TX-55 was destroyed before completion. As such, it is the only Metal Gear model never to see active combat.

In Snake's Revenge, the uncanonical sequel to Metal Gear, mass-produced versions of the original Metal Gear appears, alongside Metal Gear 2, its successor. The wreckage of the original Metal Gear itself also appears in Metal Gear: Ghost Babel, in "Stage 9" of the game.

Metal Gear D

The Revised Metal Gear D (from Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake) is a redesigned version of the original TX-55 model, featuring a more streamlined design. Its standard arsenal is comprised of a 60mm Vulcan Gun, a 5.56mm machinegun and a missile pod with a capacity for six warheads. It was developed by Dr. Madnar for Zanzibar Land, much like TX-55. However, unlike the TX-55, he designed D out of his own free will. D was piloted by Gray Fox during Zanzibar Land's raid of Nuclear Disposal Sites. However, D's weakspot were its legs, which were vulnerable to hand grenades. Snake uses this knowledge to his advantage while fighting D.

In addition to Metal Gear D, a small-scaled mass-produced version of Metal Gear was also developed in Zanzibar Land known as Metal Gear G (or Gustav). These Metal Gear units have their nuclear armament removed, which are replaced by improved sensors. They are used primarily for infantry, but are not deployed during Snake's mission (as they were not added to the game due to time constraints).

Metal Gear REX

Metal Gear REX is the model of Metal Gear involved in the Shadow Moses incident (depicted in Metal Gear Solid), and is characterized by a railgun that can deliver undetectable nuclear warheads to anywhere in the world. In addition to its railgun, REX differs from the preceding Metal Gear D in that its legs are heavily armored and reinforced, not vulnerable like its predecessor's. The Metal Gear REX has near-impregnable compound armor, a pair of vulcan cannons, anti-tank missiles, and a free-electron laser, to protect itself from conventional forces. Its primary weapon, however, is a railgun capable of delivering a nuclear warhead anywhere in the world, without the propellant trail or launch flare that gives away the launch position of a traditional ballistic missile. Because of its sealed, one-man cockpit and thick armor, its sensors are focused in a radome on the left side of its body; this radome is very vulnerable to attack, and destroying it effectively blinds the REX, forcing the cockpit to open. In this state, the REX is vulnerable as its controls can be easily destroyed (This feature was purposefully added by its designer, Dr. Hal Emmerich, who declared that nothing can be complete without a "character flaw").

The idea of Metal Gear REX originally came from Aleksandr Leonovitch Granin from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater who said that for a tank to be perfect, it needed legs. He even had drawings of Metal Gear REX which he showed Naked Snake. At the end of Metal Gear Solid 3 Ocelot reveals he stole the designs from Granin.

The Metal Gear REX was a last-ditch effort on the part of weapons company ArmsTech, and, after bribing DARPA chief Donald Anderson to get covert US government funding for its development, ArmsTech produces a single prototype, which is sent to be tested at a nuclear weapons disposal facility on Shadow Moses Island. In the Shadow Moses incident (the events of Metal Gear Solid), the Shadow Moses facility is taken over by the rogue special forces unit FOXHOUND, led by Liquid Snake, who then attempt to use it as leverage to extort $1 billion and the remains of Big Boss from the US government. Solid Snake infiltrates the Shadow Moses facility and, with the help of Hal "Otacon" Emmerich, the disgruntled designer of REX, and Cyborg Ninja, a mysterious infiltrator, eliminates FOXHOUND and destroys the Metal Gear REX.

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Games - Metal Gear

Models of Metal Gear (canonical)

Metal Gear TX-55

Metal Gear D

Metal Gear REX

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