What was the first metal gear?

Answer 1

If one is referring to the games, Metal Gear was the first Metal Gear game. It was released in 1987 for the MSX2 computer and the Nintendo Entertainment System by Konami. If one is referring to the eponymous Metal Gear mecha, the first one in the series chronology was the Metal Gear TX-55, designed by Dr. Madnar in Outer Heaven in 1995. Prior to the TX-55, there was the Shagohod, as created by Soviet scientist Dr. Sokolov in 1964. This was not a Metal Gear in the traditional sense, as it lacked legs and instead used hovercraft technology and jet propulsion. But it was made to deliver a nuclear payload from any location in the world. However, the original designs for Metal Gear, as imagined by Aleksandr Granin, bore a resemblance to Metal Gear REX and Metal Gear D, although those would not be realized until 2005 and 1998 in the games' chronology, respectively.