Aleksandr Leonovitch Granin
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| Aleksandr Leonovitch Granin | |
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| Nationality |  Russian
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| Affiliations | Granin Design Bureau |
| Appears in | Metal Gear Solid 3 |
| English voice actor | Jim Ward |
| Japanese voice actor | Takeshi Aono |
| Motion capture actor(s) | Takashi Kubo |
- This article has an associated MGA card, A.L. Granin (MGA Card).
Aleksandr Leonovitch Granin was the director of the OKB-812 Granin Design Bureau, or the Graniny Gorki Research and Design Lab during the events of Operation Snake Eater in 1964.
[edit] Cold War
He has been twice awarded the Order of Lenin and the Stalin Medal, which he wears proudly on his suit jacket. An engineering genius, he created the basic design for the mobile ballistic missile system SS-1C.Granin was the original designer of the first Metal Gear, although Colonel Volgin and the USSR decided that Sokolov's idea of the rocket-equipped Shagohod tank was a more worthwhile project, a decision that left Granin greatly embittered. He planned to send all of his research and designs for Metal Gear to a collegue in America, the father of Hal Emmerich (who's also a supporter of the bipedal-walking-tank weapon in America, though he is of course widely criticized for the idea, which will eventually be used by Hal to build Metal Gear REX more than four decades later.)
[edit] Operation Snake Eater
Granin was confronted as he was "drowning his sorrows" by Naked Snake and decided to help him with his mission to rescue Sokolov and get him back to the United States, thereby eliminating his research rival, and hopefully having the Shagohod destroyed in the process. Granin would not live to see if his plan would come to fruition, as Volgin suspected Granin of being the spy aiding Snake. Volgin "interrogated" him by putting him inside a large steel barrel and pounding away at it with his electrically-charged attacks, eventually killing Granin. However Volgin does find a transmitter in his boot confirming that there is a spy.
It is implied by Ocelot's statements to the CIA Director at the end of the mission that Granin died before he could send the documents to America, as Ocelot himself seemed to have stolen the designs to present them as a possible future weapon to his bosses back in America.
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Naked Snake — Major Zero — Para-Medic — Sigint The Boss — Colonel Volgin — Ocelot — EVA The Pain — The Fear — The Fury — The End — The Sorrow |
