

First, Ocelot used the gatling gun pods against Solidus, who used his exoskeleton's power to counter. After witnessing RAY's appearance, Raiden believed it to be the new Metal Gear that was in development and, thus, was alarmed that it had already been activated.Īfter the AI GW became corrupted by Emma Emmerich's worm cluster, Ocelot after revealing that he was a Patriot agent attempted to use the prototype RAY to kill Solid Snake, Raiden, and Solidus Snake. After Solidus ordered the Harrier's pilot to flee, RAY took the jet and Solidus beneath the waves.


After special forces agent Raiden shot down Solidus's Harrier II, RAY emerged from the waters to catch the fallen aircraft and launched cluster bombs that devastated the surrounding area. In April 2009, Ocelot gave the original RAY prototype to Solidus Snake, which was used during the takeover of the Big Shell offshore cleanup facility, the disguise of Arsenal Gear. RAY rescues Solidus Snake's downed Harrier jet, at the Big Shell. After Liquid's personality subsided, Ocelot took RAY to his superiors in the Patriots.Īfterwards, the Patriots had RAY redesigned and mass-produced in order to protect a new type of Metal Gear that the U.S. Just as Snake attempted to stop him from entering RAY's cockpit, Liquid Ocelot escaped into RAY, then used the prototype's hydro cutter to break through the ship's hull, sinking the Discovery and taking the Marines and the mercenaries along with it. In the tanker's holds, Ocelot betrayed his allies, killing both Gurlukovich and General Dolph, before detonating explosives planted within the tanker. However, Snake was beaten there by Revolver Ocelot, Sergei Gurlukovich, and the Gurlukovich Mercenaries, who took over the vessel in an attempt to steal the new weapon. Ocelot was also the one selected to take control of RAY among the group, as he was the only one of the mercenaries who had undergone the necessary VR training to pilot it. The anti-Metal Gear NGO Philanthropy had learned of the scheduled testing, and Solid Snake was dispatched to infiltrate the disguised tanker, in an attempt to leak pictures of RAY onto the Internet and expose it to the world. In 2007, the Marines attempted to transport the Metal Gear RAY prototype, aboard the USS Discovery, to a testing location more than 500 miles south of the Bermudas, outside of the U.S. The RAY prototype in the holds of the Discovery. The Manhattan Incident See also: Tanker Incident and the Big Shell Incident While the prototype was operable by a single pilot, RAY's final form was intended to be unmanned. It was a standalone Marines project that was able to operate independently, without requiring any Naval assistance. RAY was commissioned by the Pentagon and the Marines, and Commandant General Scott Dolph helped spearhead the project. Its creation was also believed to have been motivated as a result of intense rivalry between the Marines and the United States Army, especially after the latter's part in developing REX. This made RAY the first Metal Gear not to be specifically designed to launch nuclear missiles. Metal Gear RAY was originally developed as a countermeasure to the abundance of Metal Gear REX derivatives being built around the world, caused by the leaking of REX's exercise data on the black market, following the Shadow Moses Incident in 2005.
