Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-149.12.15.1-20140328232551/@comment-25481654-20150709045145

The small size of the TX-55 is precisely why it still remains more advance than ZEKE and later models like the newly confirmed ST-84. A 6 meter machine that carried not one, but 2 nukes? And can be deployed in any land terrain (theoretically anyway)?

That is far deadlier than Zeke alone, which only has half of the Nuke payload and is a much larger (and therefor easier to detect) target.

The TX-55 is also still well armed for its small size, and would likely be extremely mobile at that size as well (at only 6 meters tall, it weighed far less than its predecessors.) The ST-84 is also apparrently 15 meters tall. Smaller than Zeke, but not sized down quite as efficiently, proving a progression between the larger Zeke (an early prototype) and the later model (TX-55).

Plus, I believe the intention was to eventually mass produce the TX-55. Doing so was a terifying prospect. Tiny Metal Gears wandering around the western world? It's no surprise the Patriots wanted this development stopped. Metal Gear D was more advance and better armed, but still similarly small and nimble (despite weighing 3 times as much.)