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Landing Craft
Length: 45 meters
Mass: 180 tons
  Powers/Weapons: None
First Appearance: Varan (1958)
Series:  Showa  

Description

Answering the call of their nation in peril, these craft rushed to deploy their cargoes of men and hardware to counter the monster Varan. Waiting in the waters around Tokyo, the crafts halted as Varan rose from the waves and the Missile Launcher Trucks, still located on the Landing Crafts, unloaded payloads of missiles at the monster. As Varan continued inland, the Landing Craft moved to the shore in order to drop their cargos off to continue the attack. What ensued could be called one of the most successful raids against a kaiju in military history, as a combined attack of M24 Chafee Tanks, F86F Saber Jets and the recently deployed Missile Launcher Trucks was put into effect. Although the conventional military raid failed to hurt Varan, they managed to confine the damage to Haneda Airport until a flare laced with Special Dynamite was deployed, and devoured, by Varan, ending his short lived raid on Japan.