The duplicate designs would later served as the inspiration for the Intercontinental Ballistic Metal Gear. Warning: The following information is from outside Hideo Kojima's core 'Metal Gear Saga.' It has some level of canonicity within the continuity, but reader discretion is advised. The Soviets also researched ways to launch an untraceable missile since 1964. Later, triple spy Ocelot also stole and delivered duplicate designs to his CIA superiors. Drunk and bitter, Granin sent his designs to an American colleague, revealing this to CIA operative Naked Snake during Operation Snake Eater. However, Colonel Volgin of GRU rejected his ideas in favor of Nikolai Stepanovich Sokolov's Shagohod. In the early 1960s, Soviet scientist Aleksandr Leonovitch Granin created designs for a REX-like bipedal tank. Granin's designs and notes for what would ultimately become Metal Gear REX, 1964. 4.11 Metal Gear Solid V, Online and Survive.4.5 Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.4.4 Metal Gear Solid Mobile and Portable Ops Plus.4.2 Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.
