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Like I said, there is a novelization of MGS4 which implies it's just an Arsenal Gear one that Ocelot modified.

That's hilariously dumb for so many reasons but I suppose canon is canon.

I dunno how Ocelot was supposed to engineer a tail for the thing or where he would get the resources to build it, never mind why, or why he bothered to change the eye(s) and add a cockpit apparently just so that he could trick Snake into thinking he was fighting a stronger machine when he presumably could have just gone and gotten said stronger machine out of his garage. I also find it amusing that Rex's weapons deal less damage to this Arsenal Ray than Raiden's grenade launcher did to the same model, and that the fight was presented as if it isn't anticlimactic after Raiden defeated 20 or so of these things (depending on your difficulty level) on foot in 2 and yet here we are fighting one in a giant death machine.

Sounds to me like the writer of your novelization wanted a feasible reason Rex could beat Ray, which is a Rex killer and decided opening all those cans of worms was better than just saying Snake had good willpower or something.

But like I said, I suppose canon is canon.
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