TX-55 Metal Gear

Background

TX-55 Metal Gear is 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.

General Information

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

Species: Bipedal Tank

Occupation: None

Ammo: Able to carry 2 Nuclear Warheads, multiple Missiles, thousands of bullets, has unlimited ammo for laser cannon

Wielders: Outer Heaven

Codex Statistics

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

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Building level. Town level to City Level with Nuclear Warheads (Is cable of firing nuclear weaponry, which can usually produce around this much energy)

Durability: Building level (Can take hits from the weapons 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 bi-pedal tank of this size. Snake's older weapons should also be superior to minigun turrets that can harm Metal Gear Sahelanthropus)

Travel Speed: Superhuman (Can move at 50 km/h)

Combat Speed: Unknown (TX-55 Metal was destroyed before it was activated and was never shown fighting), Speed of Light with its Laser Cannon (Can shoot lasers with its laser cannon)

Range: Several Meters (By itself), Kilometers with Vulcan Gun (Has a Vulcan Gun which has a range of 2 kilometers), Hundreds of Kilometers to Thousands of Kilometers with Missiles (Has missiles which have a range of anywhere between less than 1000 kilometers to over 5,000 kilometers), Thousands of Kilometers with Laser Cannon (Has a laser cannon which has a range of 1600 kilometers), Hundreds of Kilometers to Thousands of Kilometers with Nukes (Has short ranged and middle ranged nuclear weaponry which has a range between 300 Kilometers to 3,500 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), Penetration Damage (Type 1; With it's Vulcan Gun), 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)

Resistance to Heat (It's armor is heatproof)

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Other

Weaknesses: Its armor is thinner on its legs than the rest of its body and it 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.