Metal Gear D

Background

Metal Gear D is the fourth Metal Gear being predated by Metal Gear ZEKE, Metal Gear Sahelanthropus, and its prototype TX-55 Metal Gear. After the Outer Heaven Uprising, Dr. Drago Pettrovich Madnar was dismissed by the western world as a radical mad man and was shut out by the scientific community. With no place to go, Madnar willing joined Zanzibar Land and helped them create the new Metal Gear. After its creation, Metal Gear D was used to attack several nuclear disposal sites and other neighboring countries, allowing Zanzibar Land steal nuclear weapons from said areas along with kidnapping Dr. Kio Marv. With Zanzibar Land now being the only country with nuclear weapons, the western world yet again sent Solid Snake to stop the conflict. During his time in Zanzibar Land, Gray Fox would use Metal Gear D to try and stop Snake from rescuing Dr. Marv multiple times, with Snake eventually fighting Gray Fox and destroying Metal Gear D once and for all.

General Information

Name: Metal Gear D (Metal Gear for short)

Origin: Metal Gear

First Appearance: Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake

Latest Appearance: Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (Physical appearance), Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Flashback; Appears in a flashback of Zanzibar Land)

Age: Less than a year old (Was created during the Zanzibar Land Disturbance, which started and ended in 1999)

Classification: Nuclear Armed Bipedal Tank

Ammo: Six Nuclear Warheads, Various Missiles, Thousands of Bullets

Creator: Dr. Drago Pettrovich Madnar

Wielders: Gray Fox, Zanzibar Land

Height: 8.5 Meters

Weight: 61.05 Tonnes

Status: Destroyed (Destroyed by Solid Snake)

Threat Level: Global Threat (Metal Gear D is a nuclear armed bipedal tank that was active during a time where no other countries had the capabilities to launch nuclear weapons)

Codex Statistics

Tier: At least 8-C. 7-C to 7-B with Nuclear Warheads

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: At least Building level (Stated to be many times more powerful than its prototype, TX-55 Metal Gear, which can take hits from the weapons Solid Snake used in 1995, which should be superior to the ones used by Big Boss during 1974, which could take down both Chrysalis and Peace Walker, which are of these sizes and should be superior the ones used by Venom Snake during 1984, which can take down Metal Gear Sahelanthropus, which is a large bipedal tank of this size. Snake's older weapons should also be superior to minigun turrets that can harm Metal Gear Sahelanthropus). Town level to City Level with Nuclear Warheads (Is cable of firing nuclear weaponry, which can usually produce around this much energy)

Durability: At least Building level (Stated to be many times more powerful than its prototype, TX-55 Metal Gear)

Travel Speed: Superhuman (Can run at 45km/h)

Combat Speed: At most Massively Hypersonic (Can tag Solid Snake, who can dodge tank fire, which is moves at this speed, can tag a cybernetic Gray Fox, who can deflect point-blank gunfire, which results in these speeds, can tag Tengu Soldiers, who can also block point-blank gunfire, and can dodge a bullet from a railgun, which moves at this speed. Solid Snake can also tag Big Boss, who is the genetic template for Solidus Snake, Big Boss' perfect clone, who can tag Raiden, who can block point-blank gunfire)

Range: Several Meters (Is 8.5 meters tall, 7.8 meters long, and 5.6 meters wide), Kilometers with Firearms and Surface-to-air-Missiles (Equipped with a machine gun, with a standard machine gun having an effective firing range of 1.8 kilometers. Equipped with a Vulcan Gun, which has a range of two kilometers. Equipped with Surface-to-air-Missiles, which has a range of three kilometers), Tens of Kilometers with Sensors (Its Sensors have radius of 12.5 kilometers), Hundreds of Kilometers to Thousands of Kilometers with Nuclear Weaponry (Equipped with short-ranged and middle-ranged nuclear weaponry, which has a range between 300 Kilometers to 3,500 Kilometers)

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Powers and Techniques

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Inorganic Physiology (Is a bipedal tank), Enhanced Senses (Fitted with various sensors and cameras), Penetration Damage (Physical Penetration; Equipped with a machine gun and Vulcan Gun), Explosion Manipulation (Able to fire missiles and nukes), Radiation Manipulation (Is able to fire nuclear weaponry, which causes radiation), Large Size (Supersize; Is 8.5 meters tall, 7.8 meters long, and 5.6 meters wide), Lock-On & Radar Sensing (Attack Homing; Able to use radar homing missiles), Pierce Resistance (Standard Pierce Resistance; Fitted with Chobham plate armor).

Resistance to Heat Manipulation (Metal Gear D's armor is heatproof)

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Notable Techniques

None Notable.

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Other

Weaknesses: Its legs have thinner armor than the rest of its body.

Note: The main Metal Gear cast are not assumed to scale to the potency of any of the Metal Gears or other types of armored vehicles, from feats like Gray Fox and Liquid Snake being able to tank the destruction of Metal Gears, as they have been shown to be consistently far weaker than them. Big Boss and Volgin would have been killed by a C3 explosion, which was unable to damage the Shagohod, which is a armored vehicle from 1964, which should be weaker than all of its successors. Big Boss using his strongest weapons was unable to harm the Shagohod without attacking its weak point. Both Big Boss and The Boss would have been killed by the bombs from the MiG planes, which should comparable to the C3 used on the Shagohod. AI weapons such as the Cocoon can nearly one-shot Big Boss with a single attack, along with Miller stating Big Boss can't harm the various armored vehicles in the game without lethal weaponry. Attacks that are able to one-shot Venom Snake, won't one-shot Metal Gear Sahelanthropus. Metal Gear Sahelanthropus' railgun does massive damage to Venom Snake, even when using protective gear like the Battle Dress. Solid Snake needed to use his strongest weapons to attack weak points in order defeat TX-55 Metal Gear. Solid Snake would later do the same when fighting Metal Gear D. Liquid Snake stated that Solid Snake's stringer missiles would kill both him and an injured Gray Fox, with said missiles being unable to harm the armor of Metal Gear REX. Metal Gear REX was able to easily overpower Gray Fox and crushed him to death with a stomp. Liquid Snake tanking Metal Gear REX's destruction is likely due to how he was in its protective cockpit, as even a distance the explosion was able to knock out Solid Snake. Metal Gear RAY, a Metal Gear made to defeat Metal Gears like Metal Gear REX, was able to easily knock out Solid Snake with a single indirect hit. Gekkos, bipedal tanks that are easily destroyed by Metal Gear REX, can one-shot Old Snake.

Gallery

Metal Gear D's Gallery

Metal Gear D as depicted on the cover of Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. Metal Gear D's in game sprite. Technical specifications for Metal Gear D. A pilot within the cockpit of Metal Gear D. Metal Gear D's visual sensors (the red lens being the infrared sensor). Metal Gear D's missile pod. Metal Gear D's rotary cannon. Metal Gear D's blueprints. Submitted artwork for Metal Gear D by the Konami staff. Metal Gear D side profile. Metal Gear D front profile. Metal Gear D rear profile. Snake fighting against Metal Gear D. Metal Gear D blueprints split apart and mixed up. Various pictures of Metal Gear D. Metal Gear D's cameo in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. Metal Gear D in a flashback to Zanzibar Land in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. Metal Gear D as depicted in the Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Official Art Works book.