Arsenal Gear is the code name for a fictional weapons platform in the videogame Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. In the game, it is the latest generation of Metal Gear. Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (commonly abbreviated MGS2) is a stealth-based game that was developed and published by Konami for the PlayStation 2 in 2001. ... Metal Gear is a series of stealth-based games created by Hideo Kojima and developed and published by Konami. ...

History

Arsenal Gear is located beneath the Big Shell facility, and takes the form of a submersible mobile fortress. Vast in scale, its primary function is to provide a secure haven for a supercomputer called "GW". This is designed to monitor, block, and tamper with Internet communications, in order to further the totalitarian agenda of the "Patriots", their "S3 Program", Selection for Societal Sanity. One of its principal engineers is Emma "E.E." Emmerich, Hal Emmerich's sister. It is said that there are more than one Arsenal Gears, and that JFK at the end comes from one. The Big Shell consists of two central cores, each surrounded by six secondary struts, all connected by bridges. ... A submersible is another name for a submarine, and is the normal term for civilian and non-combatant military designs, particularly midget submarines. ... Spoiler warning: The Selection for Societal Sanity, or S3 program was a fictitious program from the Metal Gear series, and was a main plot point in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. ... Dr. Hal Emmerich, nicknamed Otacon, is a fictional character in the Metal Gear Solid video game series. ...

Defenses

Arsenal Gear is never shown using any weapony of its own; instead, a hangar of about 25 production model Metal Gear RAY units under the remote control of GW provides much of its defensive capability. There are also an unspecified number of "Arsenal Tengu", heavily armoured soldiers each bearing a P90 submachine gun and Katana, and clad in a form of artificial bionic exoskeleton. The latter are defeated by Raiden and Snake, the former by Raiden, Solidus, and Emma Emmerich's computer virus. It is also believed to have a large payload of of over a couple of thousand missiles and a purified hydrogen bomb; however, without full air, sea and land support Arsenal Gear is practically defenseless, as Solidus states -- "Arsenal is no more than a gigantic coffin". Metal Gear RAY is a fictional amphibious mecha in the videogame Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. ... Tengu (天狗) are minor kami found in Japanese folklore. ... Caliber: 5. ... MP5KA4 9 x 19 mm with 3-round burst trigger group A submachine gun is a firearm that combines the automatic fire of a machine gun with the ammunition of a pistol, and is usually between the two in weight and size. ... Katana of the 16th or 17th Century, with its saya. ... This article or section should be merged with Biomimetics Bionics (from German Bionik or technique from nature) is application of biological analogies for the study and design of engineering systems. ... An exoskeleton, in contrast to an endoskeleton, is an external anatomical feature that supports and protects an animals body. ... For other meanings of the name Raiden, see Raiden (disambiguation). ... Solid Snake is the main protagonist in the Metal Gear video game series. ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945 lifted nuclear fallout some 18 km (60,000 feet) above the epicenter. ... Solidus Snake is a fictional character the video game Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty by Konami. ...

Purpose

To protect and carry a neural network-based computer, "GW," that will be used for testing and enforcing the S3 (Selection for Societal Sanity) Program. This program is designed to control and select memes which are 'good' for the human race. The Patriots perceive that natural selection does not affect information since the dawn of the internet; this device provides an artificial check to the process (perhaps analogous to eugenics' belief that genes should be artificially selected). Simplified view of an artificial neural network A neural network is an interconnected group of artificial or biological neurons. ... Spoiler warning: The Selection for Societal Sanity, or S3 program was a fictitious program from the Metal Gear series, and was a main plot point in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. ... Meme, (rhymes with cream and comes from Greek root with the meaning of memory and its derivative mimeme), is the term given to a unit of information that replicates from brains and inanimate stores of information, such as books and computers, to other brains or stores of information. ... Spoiler warning: The Patriots, also known as the La-li-lu-le-lo (or La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo), are a fictional Illuminati-like organization dedicated to creating a new world order, that controls the United States of America in the Metal Gear video game series. ... Natural selection is a process by which biological populations are altered over time, as a result of the propagation of heritable traits that affect the capacity of individual organisms to survive and reproduce. ... Eugenics is the self-direction of human evolution: Logo from the Second International Congress of Eugenics, 1921, depicting it as a tree which unites a variety of different fields. ... This stylistic schematic diagram shows a gene in relation to the double helix structure of DNA and to a chromosome (right). ...

Name

The name "GW" may or may not be a reference to George Washington Bridge in New York City, which is colloquially known as GW. Snake leaps from this bridge at the start of the game (and intends to be collected from Verazzano bridge downstream at the end of his mission). The George Washington Bridge is considered to be a very "intelligent" bridge, one with many cameras and other electronic devices. The George Washington Bridge The George Washington Bridge is a suspension bridge over the Hudson River, connecting the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan Island in New York City to Fort Lee, New Jersey. ...

GW is also likely to refer to the United States president George Washington; according to the game's script, the new AI which Raiden speaks with via Codec at the game's end is called JFK (referring to former president John F. Kennedy). For other meanings of the name Raiden, see Raiden (disambiguation). ... President is a title held by many leaders of organizations, companies, universities, and countries. ... JFK redirects here. ...

It is also theorized by some that "GW" might be a reference to George W. Bush and the "Patriot Act" which arrived during his first term in office (the latter term would also connect to which the in-game group, The Patriots). The connection has been drawn due to the powers the Act is perceived to grant the United States government. However, it seems unlikely that Kojima is trying to make this political statement, given that MGS2's first draft script (Patriots, GW, and all) was completed long before the Act appeared. This article needs cleanup. ...