Granin seems more important than how he was presented… whats the deal?
Aleksandr Leonovitch Granin is the director of the OKB-812 Granin Design Bureau (also known as the Graniny Gorki Research and Design Lab), and has been twice awarded the Order of Lenin and the Order of Stalin, which he wears proudly on his suit jacket. He claims that he has developed countless weapons in the service of his “great communist society” since the Great Patriotic War and that it was thanks to him that the Soviet Union were able to drive out the Germans (implying that he also performed research during World War II). It was he who created the basic design for the mobile ballistic missile system SS-1C, but, before the events of Operation: Snake Eater, his latest project (a design plan for what would later become the Metal Gear Rex from MGS1) was cancelled in favor of Sokolov’s Shagohod project, a fact about which Granin was quite bitter. Granin was a colleague of Otacon’s father/grandfather (who was also a weapons designer during World War II, involved in the Manhattan Project)
