Super X
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The Super X (スーパーX Sūpā Ekkusu?) was a Japanese military aircraft featured in the 1984 film The Return of Godzilla. The concept and basic design were reused for the Super X-II in Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989) and the Super X-III in Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995), both under the command of Sho Kuroki, Special Pilot of the Defence Agency.
[edit] Super X (The Return of Godzilla)
The Super X was a joint project of the Ground and Air Self-Defense Forces. Designated the Capital Defense Mobile Fortress T-1, it was a piloted VTOL craft constructed in secret to defend the Capital of Japan in case of emergency, in particular a nuclear attack. It was operated by a crew of four, armored with heat-resistant titanium alloy integrated with platinum circuitry, heavily armed with missiles, machine guns, and high-intensity lasers, and used four underside rotors for lift. The craft was thus well-suited to engage Godzilla in Shinjuku when the creature invaded Tokyo in 1984. Its magazine of missiles were fitted with cadmium warheads, which were temporarily able to control the nuclear reactions keeping Godzilla alive.
However, the detonation of a nuclear missile in the stratosphere above Tokyo results in a spectacular lightning storm that revives Godzilla. Exhausted of its cadmium missiles, the Super X attempted to flee while repelling Godzilla with machine gun and laser fire. Ultimately, however, Godzilla's atomic ray eroded the warship's armor; subsequently its rotors failed and it landed near the Sumitomo building. Godzilla toppled the building, destroying the craft and killing its crew.
[edit] Super X-II (Godzilla vs. Biollante)
A sleeker but broader shape defined the second Super X, a remotely operated VTOL craft designed specifically to combat Godzilla. It sported TA32 armor, claimed to be twice as resistant as the previous craft's; it also introduced the "Fire Mirror", a configuration of synthetic diamond designed to reflect Godzilla's heat ray, intensified 1000-fold, though not as heat-resistant as the TA32. During the Super X-II's first bout with Godzilla, after several effective counterattacks the Fire Mirror began to melt. Godzilla's ray and tail damaged the ship, which was forced to retreat for repairs.
Later, in Osaka, the Super X-II served as a decoy to maneuver Godzilla into firing range of a bazooka troop equipped with shells containing a biological agent. The craft taunted Godzilla almost into range of the troop until it ran out of missiles, at which point Major Kuroki ordered the still-damaged Fire Mirror engaged. Godzilla's next blast crippled the craft, which crashed into Osaka Business Park. Though the Super X-II was lost, the mission to infect Godzilla succeeded.
The Super X-2 Also appeared in Godzilla II, a video game for the Nintendo Entertainment system as a playable unit.
It was actually piloted by crew of 6 people not 4. If you watch the movie carefully, as the Super X approaches, you see two pilots in the front flying the craft and in the back the crew of 4 doing the other controls.
[edit] Super X-III (Godzilla vs. Destoroyah)
Whereas Godzilla defense measures had by 1995 become the role of G-Force, the multipurpose fighter plane Super X-III was not designed as an anti-Godzilla weapon, but rather (as with the original Super X) to respond to a nuclear accident or attack. The winged V/STOL craft's central features are its cooling weapons, the Super-Low Temperature Beam and Freezing Missiles. Also like the original, it is piloted and operated by a three-person crew and equipped with cadmium missiles intended for long-range nuclear reaction control. Artificial diamond is incorporated into its alloy armor, making it strong enough to withstand repeated hits from Godzilla's ray.
When Godzilla manifested signs of an imminent nuclear meltdown, G-Force's offensive weapons were determined unusable, and the Super X-III was called into action. Piloted (this time from within) by Kuroki, the craft engaged Godzilla at sea, using its cooling weapons to freeze Godzilla and cadmium missiles to slow its internal reactor. Encased in ice, Godzilla sank into the Bungo aquduct. During Godzilla's later battle with Destoroyah the Super X-III looked on, preparing to again shell Godzilla with cadmium when it hit a critical meltdown temperature. When Destoroyah attempted to flee, the Super X-III fired its Low Temperature Beam, disabling and apparently disintegrating Destoroyah. Though it fired several cadmium shells at Godzilla during the subsequent meltdown, protected by its armor from the immense nuclear fallout, it was unable to control the process.This Super X is the only one to have beat Godzilla without being destroyed later as well as the only army weapon to destroy a monster in the Godzilla time line(the Oxygen Destroyer wasn't an army weapon).
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