Metal Gear RAY

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The prototype Metal Gear Ray unit was built by the US Marine Corps as an answer to the various Metal Gear units being produced around the world, after the plans to Metal Gear REX were released by Revolver Ocelot following the Shadow Moses incident. However, on the oil tanker Discovery it was captured and taken by Revolver Ocelot, under the direction of the Patriots.

[edit] Weaponry

(Taken from the mechanical information DVD)

RAY has two large-calibre machine guns, one on the end of each "wing". Mounted on the back are 6 vertical missile launch tubes which are shown releasing surface-to-surface missiles as well as some sort of cluster bomb. The production models also exhibit missile launchers in the "knees" of the legs much like those found in Metal Gear REX. However, RAY's defining weapon is its hydro cannon, mounted behind heavy armour plating on the "head", just below the cockpit which opens as a three-segmented mechanism. Based on existing hydro cutters (which work by firing a jet of extremely high-pressure water at significant velocity to cut dense materials), but many orders of magnitude more powerful, it is no doubt included to provide a way of effectively attacking other Metal Gears; it makes short work of the hull of the Discovery when stolen, slicing the ship in two with impunity. The Marines' Ray was designed to function underwater; the tail would provide smooth, fast, and virtually undetectable movement.

There were 25 production models produced; an army of Ray's to protect the virtually defenceless Arsenal Gear. All but 3 three were destroyed by Raiden, the rest by Solidus Snake, after the AI controlling them was infected by a digital version of the virus FoxDie. The prototype escaped intact.