By the time we have the ability to make something like REX, we would have no possible reason to actually do so because the same technology could make way better weapons
Are you 12? Walkers are too big and too unbalanced to be feasible. Antyhing would knock them down and how are you getting them back up? Huge profile. Feet would sink into anything not concrete.
What advantages does walking give?
Attack helis, subs, MBT, even IFV, do what Rex could do but better. It's pure fantasy.
>Is Rex even feasible?
hideo kojima basically forgot a tiny bit of science when designing rex
a railgun firing a nuke with no propellant on board (the conceit of rex is that you cant trace its firing origin because it doesnt burn propellant) wouldnt actually be stealthy
since it has no propulsion in the shell, it has to have enough energy to cross continents from the moment it leaves the barrel
but the air is thickest on the surface, so you need exponentially more energy in the round compared to a rocket resulting in a muzzle flash that would be brighter than a rocket engine
and ballistic missiles, as their name implies, are on a ballistic trajectory
they dont use their engines during the cruise phase
so a railgun is equally as visible at launch and equally as stealthy in flight
Isn't the whole point of the metal gear project that it's basically a more mobile and independent version of the mobile truck mounted missile carriers?
You drop it down near enemy territory, it jogs around to launch position and shoots
All the different metal gears have different purposes, out of all of them ZEKE is the only one that does what you describe but even then they aren't dropped in enemy territory, that defeats the purpose of having them in the first place
Just skimming the wiki and most of them seem to be developed for exactly this purpose in mind.
The OG metal gear from the Nintendo games is literally just described as a portable missile launch platform.
The rex was also specifically designed to be able to fight off conventional troops so they gave it GAU cannons and hellfires.
The idea basically being that you deploy it in a friendly country, it rucks it to it's launch position and shoots a bunch of undetectable stealth nukes of which your enemy has no idea when they launched or where from
its mechanism is advanced beyond our comprehension as far as im concerned. the phrase "it is made from currently existing technology" comes up a lot in MGS games - implying the existence of technology that does not officially exist. in MGS you've got active camouflage, anti gravity, and all kinds of other crazy shit
Yes, however mechatronics still need to become far cheaper, I suspect once 3D printers are capable to print specific resin and metal pieces we may be capable to see these mass produced.
I would say it is possible, but it wouldn't be able to reach any level of what the technical specifications claims it can do. Getting it to a state of being just somewhat functional alone would require immense concessions. At most it would be an extremely challenging engineering exercise, but thinking anything actually viable or useful would come from making it would be delusional.
who fricking cares. kojima made Nanomachines already a major plot point by the time of metal Gear solid 1. That alone is crazy sci fi shit. Mgs4 is the most kino. Maybe not the best game but it had sovl.
Rex kind of made sense in MGS1. It was just an off-road stealth nuke launcher. Silly boss fight at the end aside. I guess it has a use case for guaranteed first or second strike capability.
The cyborg shit was the real game changer to come from the patriots weapons programs. Even the v1 took a half dead cripple and turned him into something that could blender a whole base full of dudes by himself.
Shagohod before the rocket boosters was ironically the only one that made anything close to any sense because it was just an oversized transport erector launcher for IRBMs and the USSR didn't have those until the 70s
Possible but totally impractical
If you want mobile nuke launchers submarines do this far better.
Adding legs to a tank is just adding needless complexity and points of failure.
Honestly the most realistic weapons in metal gear are probably the ciphers (which basically exist now) and maybe the Geckos (albeit smaller and without the mooing)
Is it possible to build one? Yes.
Is it worth building one? No.
By the time we have the ability to make something like REX, we would have no possible reason to actually do so because the same technology could make way better weapons
Are you 12? Walkers are too big and too unbalanced to be feasible. Antyhing would knock them down and how are you getting them back up? Huge profile. Feet would sink into anything not concrete.
What advantages does walking give?
Attack helis, subs, MBT, even IFV, do what Rex could do but better. It's pure fantasy.
>Is Rex even feasible?
hideo kojima basically forgot a tiny bit of science when designing rex
a railgun firing a nuke with no propellant on board (the conceit of rex is that you cant trace its firing origin because it doesnt burn propellant) wouldnt actually be stealthy
since it has no propulsion in the shell, it has to have enough energy to cross continents from the moment it leaves the barrel
but the air is thickest on the surface, so you need exponentially more energy in the round compared to a rocket resulting in a muzzle flash that would be brighter than a rocket engine
and ballistic missiles, as their name implies, are on a ballistic trajectory
they dont use their engines during the cruise phase
so a railgun is equally as visible at launch and equally as stealthy in flight
Isn't the whole point of the metal gear project that it's basically a more mobile and independent version of the mobile truck mounted missile carriers?
You drop it down near enemy territory, it jogs around to launch position and shoots
All the different metal gears have different purposes, out of all of them ZEKE is the only one that does what you describe but even then they aren't dropped in enemy territory, that defeats the purpose of having them in the first place
>ZEKE
frick, i meant Peace Walker, got the two confused
Just skimming the wiki and most of them seem to be developed for exactly this purpose in mind.
The OG metal gear from the Nintendo games is literally just described as a portable missile launch platform.
The rex was also specifically designed to be able to fight off conventional troops so they gave it GAU cannons and hellfires.
The idea basically being that you deploy it in a friendly country, it rucks it to it's launch position and shoots a bunch of undetectable stealth nukes of which your enemy has no idea when they launched or where from
its mechanism is advanced beyond our comprehension as far as im concerned. the phrase "it is made from currently existing technology" comes up a lot in MGS games - implying the existence of technology that does not officially exist. in MGS you've got active camouflage, anti gravity, and all kinds of other crazy shit
Yes, however mechatronics still need to become far cheaper, I suspect once 3D printers are capable to print specific resin and metal pieces we may be capable to see these mass produced.
If you have enough of an energy budget anything is possible.
I would say it is possible, but it wouldn't be able to reach any level of what the technical specifications claims it can do. Getting it to a state of being just somewhat functional alone would require immense concessions. At most it would be an extremely challenging engineering exercise, but thinking anything actually viable or useful would come from making it would be delusional.
who fricking cares. kojima made Nanomachines already a major plot point by the time of metal Gear solid 1. That alone is crazy sci fi shit. Mgs4 is the most kino. Maybe not the best game but it had sovl.
Rex kind of made sense in MGS1. It was just an off-road stealth nuke launcher. Silly boss fight at the end aside. I guess it has a use case for guaranteed first or second strike capability.
The cyborg shit was the real game changer to come from the patriots weapons programs. Even the v1 took a half dead cripple and turned him into something that could blender a whole base full of dudes by himself.
first boss fight of Metal Gear Rising made that fricking abundantly apparent
Or the power suits like Solidus and Sam use, no cybernetics required and able to go toe to toe with cyborgs and Metal Gears
Square cubed law.
The bigger something gets, the stronger legs it needs.
Shagohod before the rocket boosters was ironically the only one that made anything close to any sense because it was just an oversized transport erector launcher for IRBMs and the USSR didn't have those until the 70s
Possible but totally impractical
If you want mobile nuke launchers submarines do this far better.
Adding legs to a tank is just adding needless complexity and points of failure.
Honestly the most realistic weapons in metal gear are probably the ciphers (which basically exist now) and maybe the Geckos (albeit smaller and without the mooing)
Frick you, the mooing is endearing.
?? We've already got rex, just need to put the armaments on it
This series has a lot of silly melodramatic moments you have to sit through.