TX-55 Metal Gear

Background

TX-55 Metal Gear is the 8th boss of Metal Gear and the 3rd Metal Gear being predated by Metal Gear ZEKE and Metal Gear Sahelanthropus. Like the former Metal Gears it is bipedal tank equipped with nuclear warheads. It was created by a kidnapped Dr. Drago Pettrovich Madnar who was forced to build it to keep himself and his kidnapped daughter Ellen Madnar safe. Using the AI technology from TX-11 model cyberoid also known as Bloody Brad, Madnar was able to make Metal Gear a manned and unmanned bipedal tank. After the west learned of Metal Gear's existence as a weapon of mass destruction they sent Gray Fox and then later Solid Snake over to Outer Heaven to find its whereabouts and then destroy it. Snake was able to find TX-55 Metal Gear 100 floors below Building 3 of Outer Heaven and then destroy it before it could be activated.

Powers and Stats

Tier: 8-B, 7-B with nukes

Name: TX-55 Metal Gear (Metal Gear for short)

Origin: Metal Gear

Age: Less than a year old (Was created during the Outer Heaven uprising which took place in and ended in 1995)

Classification: Nuclear armed bipedal tank

Ammo: Able to carry 2 nuclear bombs, multiple missiles, thousands of bullets, has unlimited ammo for laser cannon

Wielders: Outer Heaven

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: City Block level (Its weapons shouldn't be any weaker than older minigun turrets which could harm Metal Gear Sahelanthropus which can no-sell falls of this level of energy), City Level with nukes (Is cable of firing nukes)

Durability: City Block level (Should be comparable to older Metal Gears like Metal Gear Sahelanthropus which can no-sell falls of this level of energy)

Travel Speed: Unknown (TX-55 Metal was destroyed before it was activated thus we never see how fast it can move), likely Superhuman (Likely comparable to an older Peace Walker which in its bipedal form is comparable to Big Boss who is comparable to Solid Snake who escaped the destruction of Outer Heaven in under 30 seconds)

Combat Speed: Unknown (TX-55 Metal was destroyed before it was activated thus we never see how fast it can fight), likely Relativistic+ (Likely comparable to an older Peace Walker which in its bipedal form can tag Big Boss who can keep up with Revolver Ocelot who could react to a free electron laser from Metal Gear REX which got calculated at this), Speed of Light with its laser cannon (Can shoot lasers with its laser cannon)

Range: Extended Melee (By itself), Hundreds of Kilometers-Thousands of Kilometers with missiles (Has missiles which have a range of anywhere between less than 1000 kilometers to over 5,00 kilometers) Thousands of Kilometers with vulcan gun and laser cannon (Has a vulcan gun which has a range of 2,000 kilometers and a laser cannon which has a range of 1600 kilometers), Planetary with nukes (Can fire its nukes at anyplace on Earth which as a circumference of about 40,000 kilometers)

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Powers and Abilities

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Energy Projection & Light Manipulation (Can shoot lasers with its laser cannon), Inorganic Physiology (Is a bipedal tank), Explosion Manipulation (Is equipped with missiles and nukes), Radiation Manipulation (Is able to fire nukes which cause radiation), Radar Sensing (Has a sky alert radar), Large Size (Type 0; Is far taller than the average person)

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Other

Weaknesses: Was never fully completed

Gallery

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  TX-55 Metal Gear's sprite.

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  The wreckage of the TX-55 in Metal Gear: Ghost Babel.

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  TX-55, as depicted in The Art of Metal Gear Solid, by Yoji Shinkawa.

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  TX-55 (left), as depicted in the Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Official Art Works book.

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