Trip Wire Cannon
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Trip Wire Cannon (トリップワイヤーキャノン, Torippuwaiyākyanon) is a fictional weapon that first appeared in the 1966 Toho film, The War of the Gargantuas. They were used in tandem with the Type 66 Maser Cannon by the JSDF to combat the green Gargantua, Gaira.
Design
The cannons come in two different designs. One is a cream colored rocket shaped design with four legs to support the body and four spikes to punch into the ground to hold it in place, a dish on the back and an energy cannon on top with a cap like protrusion on the front end of the barrel. The other design is a silver-bluish rectangle with dials and displays on the front, a dish on the back and a double energy cannon on top that fires two energy rays, with the protrusion on the rear end of the barrel.
History
The War of the Gargantuas
After Gaira had made its presence known as a threat to Japan and humanity as a whole, making landfall on mainland Japan, the JSDF had devised a plan to corral the man-eater into a small electrified lake. Both traditional conventional weapons and new experimental directed-energy weapons were deployed together for the operation, the Type 66 Maser Cannon and the Trip Wire Cannons. As electrodes were placed into the lake, and Maser cannon and tanks were parked on roads atop hills overlooking the forest, the Trip Wire Cannons were placed in the forest hidden from view. As night fell, Gaira entered the ambush zone. Low flying helicopters lured Gaira into the path of oncoming fire from the Trip Wire Cannons, burning his legs, corralling him toward tank and Maser fire before the sea monster jumped into the lake in an attempt to escape. The mission seemed it would be a success and the threat would be destroyed when another Gargantua, one that is brown in color, would interfere. Sanda had come to save his brother and after the failed mission the Trip Wire Cannons had been abandoned while the Maser Cannons would continue to fight in the next battle.
Capabilities
The cannons fired thin blue energy rays that burned any surface they touched and caused Gaira considerable pain when they struck his leg. The cream colored version fired one ray from a single barrel while the while the blue versions fired two rays from a double barreled cannon but otherwise the energy beams appeared to be identical to one another. Because they are low to the ground they can be hard for monsters to spot and easily hidden in forests for traps.
Weakness
The weapons had very limited use outside of placing them as traps in a forest where they can be hidden as they were stationary. After the first mission to kill Gaira had failed they were not used again and did not assist the Type 66 Maser Cannons in the next battle with the green Gargantua as he fought his brother Sanda.
Gallery
Twin energy beam and singular beam.
Trivia
- Currently the Trip Wire Cannons only have one film appearance.
References
This is a list of references for Trip Wire Cannon. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: [1]
Comments
Showing 0 comments. When commenting, please remain respectful of other users, stay on topic, and avoid role-playing and excessive punctuation. Comments which violate these guidelines may be removed by administrators.
|
|
|
|
|
