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