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In the Gundam anime series, very large tanks of comparable size and complexity to naval warships are called Land Battleships. The designation is also sometimes applied to large armored hovercraft.

Similar vehicles also exist in other fictional series as well. The later marks of the Bolo tanks in Keith Laumer's novel series of the same name are similar to warships in size and firepower, and Land Battleships also appear in works ranging from Warhammer 40,000 to Super Robot Wars. In the tabletop wargame Heavy Gear, they are called "Landships".

1 Gundam
2 Non-Gundam fictional
3 In real life
4 See also

[edit] Gundam

A Big Tray class land battleship.

Land battleships are a staple of Gundam, they have appeared in nearly every Gundam series to date (though absent in Gundam Wing and G Gundam). A land battleship typically has many crew members and carries large-caliber naval guns (for example, Gundam SEED's Lesseps class includes three triple 16-inch gun turrets). Some land battleships are also capable of travelling over water (especially in Gundam X, where all land battleships have this ability), but tend to be slower in the water than dedicated naval vessels.

Gundam land battleship classes

Big Tray-class (Universal Century)
Dobday-class (Universal Century)

Hannibal-class Land Battleship

Gallop-class (Universal Century)
Adrastea-class (Universal Century)
Lysithea-class (Universal Century)
Alps-class (After War)
Bandaal-class (After War)
Pyrennes-class (After War)
Rocky-class (After War)
Tenzan-class (After War)
Trieste-class (After War)
Lesseps-class (Cosmic Era)
Petrie-class land cruiser (Cosmic Era)
Hannibal-class (Cosmic Era)

[edit] Non-Gundam fictional

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Rhinoceros-class (Super Robot Wars Original Generation)
Fatboy Mobile Factory (Supreme Commander)
Leviathan Command Vehicle (Warhammer 40,000)
Supertanks-(Hammer's Slammers)
Centurion Seige Crawler-Mental Omega, apparently shielded against mind-control tech.

[edit] In real life

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Panzer VIII Maus
P-1000 a german design of a "landcruiser" (landkreuzer) proposed during the second world war, but never built, to have used a naval heavy cruiser turret.
P-1500 a german design of a "landcruiser" (landkreuzer) proposed during the second world war, but never built, to be a self-propelled version of the largest railway guns.
Panzerkampfwagen E-100
O-I - Imperial Japanese ultra heavy tank with one main turret and two secondary artillery turrets.