Type 61 Tank

The Type 61 Tank was a Japanese battle tank developed and built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. It appears in the 1964 Godzilla film, Mothra vs. Godzilla and several other kaiju films from the Showa era.

History[]

Showa era[]

Mothra vs. Godzilla[]

The tanks appeared to attack Godzilla.

Frankenstein vs. Baragon[]

The tanks appeared to attack Baragon.

Invasion of Astro-Monster[]

The tanks appeared to attack Godzilla, Rodan, and King Ghidorah.

War of the Gargantuas[]

The tanks appeared to attack Sanda and Gaira.

King Kong Escapes[]

The tanks appeared to attack King Kong and Mechani-Kong.

Godzilla vs. Gigan[]

The tanks appeared to attack Gigan and King Ghidorah.

Godzilla vs. Megalon[]

The tanks appeared to attack Megalon.

Terror of Mechagodzilla[]

The tanks appeared to attack Mechagodzilla 2 and Titanosaurus.

Weapons[]

Armed with a 90mm L/52 rifled cannon
Equipped with 12.7mm M2 Browning machine gun and a 7.62mm Browning M1919A4
Able to move at 45 kilometers an hour

Gallery[]

Weapons and vehicles
Weapons
Showa era	Oxygen Destroyer ^MO2 • Markalite GYRO • Markalite Cannon • FFE Space Fighter • Atomic Heat Ray Gun • Artificial Lightning Generator • Gotengo • A-Cycle Light Ray Gun • Maser Cannon • Moonlight SY-3 • Giant Electrode • Gohten
Heisei era	Hyper Laser Cannon • Super X • Soviet Nuclear Attack Satellite • Super X2 • Anti-Nuclear Energy Bacteria • M6000 T.C. System • MBT-92 • MBAW-93 • ASTOL-MB93 • Garuda • Land Moguera • Star Falcon • DAG-MB96 • Super X3 • Nilai-Kanai Guardian Tower
Millennium series	GX-813 Griffon • Dimension Tide • Taiho • D-03 Missile • AC-3 White Heron • Eclair • Karyu • Rumbling • Dogfighter
Reiwa era	Massive Ordnance Penetrator • Electromagnetic Induction Rifle • EMP probe • Thermobaric bombs • Nanometal
Miscellaneous	Potaedong 55 • Mind-Destruction Coil • Polonium 210 • Dublin VX VIII • AAC-Beta
Land vehicles
Showa era	M24 Chaffee Tank • 155mm Howitzer M1 • 24 Twin Rocket Car • Honest John Missile Launcher • M4A3E8 Sherman Tank • Type 61 Tank • Half Track V2 Rockets • Typhoon Devastators • Exploration Car
Heisei era	Type 90 Tank
Millennium series	Full Metal Missile Launcher • Type 96 APC • Type 88 SSM
TriStar series	HMMWV • M270 MRLS • M1 Abrams
Reiwa era	Type 10 • Type 96 Multi-Purpose Missile System • Type 99 155mm Self-propelled Howitzer • Exosuit • Artillery tank
Airborne vehicles
Showa era	F86F Sabre • Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star • Saunders-Roe A.36 Lerwick • Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw • Kawasaki-Vertol KV-107 II • Cessna 170 • Curtiss C-46D • Fokker F27 Friendship • P-1 • Red Bamboo Fighter Jet • C19 Personal Carrier
Miscellaneous
Showa era	Cadmium • Space Station JSS-3 • Weather Control Capsule • Radioactivity Sonde • AAB Gamma • Human-Sign • Green Call