Solidus Snake's exoskeleton

Solidus Snake's exoskeletion was the personal exoskeletion used by Solidus Snake in 2009.

Background
Sometime after defecting the Patriots because of the events of the 2005 Shadow Moses Incident, Solidus Snake went into hiding. It's likely that the exoskeleton (created by the U.S. Army via DARPA) ended up in Solidus' possession in between his hiding out and the 2007 Tanker Incident. During his 2009 Big Shell Incident, Solidus wore the exoskeletion, which increased his speed, strength, and agility through the use of the same artificial muscle technology that was initially developed for Metal Gear RAY as well as the Tengu soldiers combat suits. It had two prehensile tentacles or "Snake Arms" which could be used to grab or asphyxiate opponents, inject Phenobarbital B into the system of an opponent, analyze the content of someone's brain for nanomachines and analyze the information on them, and also had the ability to fire small missiles. The snake arms could be ejected to further increase the wearer's speed and agility. The suit was also equipped with an accelerator that allowed the user to make quick movements across terrain, leaving a trail of flames in his path, as well as allow someone skilled with swordplay to deflect a heavy barrage of machine gun fire with relative ease. Raiden's Skull Suit was derived from the same technology. The suit can also withstand chops from an enemy's sword making even cutting the wearer in half unlikely because of sensors stretching between the interior and the surface of the suit comparable to a neural network that, upon detecting an impact, will instantaneously react by automatically contracting and diffusing the damage.

Weapons
In terms of small arms, Solidus used a P90 sub-machine gun and also used a daisho (Katana and Wakizashi set); the "Minshuto" (Democrat) and "Kyowato" (Republican) blades. During the Big Shell Incident, Solidus demonstrated a highly dextrous combat ability, both as a marksman and a swordsman (though he only ever fought while wearing his suit, which would have increased his abilities).

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