Type 61 Tank

Type 61 Tank
Manufacturing Information
Height	2.49 meters
Length	8.19 meters
Affiliation Information
Used against	Godzilla Frankenstein Baragon King Ghidorah Rodan Sanda Gaira Gappa King Kong Mechani-Kong Gigan Megalon Mechagodzilla 2 Titanosaurus
Production Information
First appearance	Mothra vs. Godzilla
Last appearance	Terror of Mechagodzilla

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 series.

History

Showa Series

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

Two Type 61 Tanks in Mothra vs. Godzilla

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 TriStar series Reiwa era Massive Ordnance Penetrator • Godzilla blood coagulant • Electromagnetic Induction Rifle • EMP probe • Thermobaric bombs • Nanometal Miscellaneous Potaedong 55 • Mind-Destruction Coil • Polonium 210 • Dublin VX VIII • AAC-Beta • Vulture 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 • Thunder Number 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 Heisei era Bell 212 • Kawasaki P-3C Orion • Mitsubishi F-1 • Mitsubishi F-15J • F-16 Fighting Falcon • AH-64 Apache • Boeing 747 • Hughes 500C • AH-1 Cobra TriStar series F-18 Hornet • UH-1H Iroquois • Canberra • Piasecki H-21B • OH-6D Cayuse MonsterVerse AgustaWestland AW109 • Airbus A340 • Boeing CH-47 Chinook • Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Reiwa era Mitsubishi F-2 • Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit • Aratrum • Type 43 Aviation Scout • Landing ship • Vulture Waterborne vehicles Showa era Eikou Maru • Bingo Maru • Landing Craft • Seahawk • Orion Maru • Frontier Missile Cruiser • I-403 • Mu Submarine • Red Satan • Red Bamboo Ship • Alpha • Black Shark • Akatsuki Heisei era Balashevo • DD-122 Hatsuyuki Millennium series Mini-SGS • Satsuma • Hatsuyuki TriStar series Ohio Class Nuclear-Powered Sub • Los Angeles-Class Nuclear Attack Sub • H.E.A.T. Seeker MonsterVerse USS Saratoga • Nimitz-class aircraft carrier • Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser • Arleigh Burke-class destroyer Extraterrestrial vehicles Showa era Mysterian Space Station • Mysterian Dome • Mysterian UFO • Natarl UFO • Natarl Mother Ship • Xilien UFO • Kilaak UFO • Terran UFO • Virasian UFO • Virasian Mind Control Device • Spaceship Zanon Heisei era MOTHER • KIDS Millennium series Millennian UFO • Xilien UFOs α, ß and γ • Xilien Mothership • Xilien Fighter Pipeworks Hammer Sub Miscellaneous Showa era Cadmium • Space Station JSS-3 • Weather Control Capsule • Radioactivity Sonde • AAB Gamma • Human-Sign • Green Call