They were among the first divisions for both military groups. Under at least the MSF team, the R&D Team, aside from weapons and equipment development, was also involved in the development of Mother Base itself, namely plant expansion and upgrading the design for Mother Base to be a honeycomb design, which also required recruits and GMP expenditures to complete. In addition, in regards to at least the Diamond Dogs team, they were also extremely thorough in their researching of various weapons, taking apart and analyzing the components recovered from the battlefield and then putting them back together in such a way that it was as if it was never dismantled to begin with, as Miller relayed to Ocelot shortly after recovering the CIA weapon "Honey Bee" where they analyzed the weapon before givi