Artificial Lightning Generator
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Artificial Lightning Generators (人工雷発生装置 Jinkōrai Hassei Sōchi) are superweapons used by the JSDF that appeared in the 1964 film Mothra vs. Godzilla. They are electrical pylons with Tesla coils attached to them, capable of discharging 20-to-30 million volt arcs of electricity onto their targets.
History
- Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964)
- Godzilla Final Wars (2004) [stock footage]
Showa era
Mothra vs. Godzilla
In a final attempt to quell Godzilla's invasion of the Chūbu region of Japan in 1964, western, central, and eastern forces of the JSDF devised a two-stage strategy involving the kaiju's aversion to electric current. In the first phase, Operation A, Godzilla was bombarded by a combined task force of air and ground units, driving him with napalm bombs and shelling towards the first line of Artificial Lightning Generators. Pressure-activated, the towers discharged strobing arcs of electricity onto Godzilla, but he advanced unimpaired, easily toppling one of the towers with a light swoop of his arms. In the second phase, Operation B, after renewed napalm bombardment by Curtiss C-46D air units, Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaws dropped conductive metal nets onto Godzilla as he reached the second line of Artificial Lightning Generators. The towers resumed their electrocution of the beast, sending him to the ground, where he began writhing violently. With the towers' wiring already at their limit, the head of the task force impulsively ordered a voltage increase to finish off Godzilla, but the wires could no longer bear the strain and began melting. Freed, Godzilla then proceeded to melt the inoperable towers with his atomic breath, ending the JSDF's campaign against him and sending them into retreat.
Millennium era
Godzilla Final Wars
The Artificial Lightning Generators appear briefly via stock footage in the opening credits montage.
Video games
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