# Monster/Horror/Sci-Fi movies: When has a Tank been been able to do any good? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 23, 2015, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monster-horror-sci-fi-movies-when-has-a-tank-been-been-able-to-do-any-good/732286 "2015-09-23T11:03:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monster-horror-sci-fi-movies-when-has-a-tank-been-been-able-to-do-any-good/732286/41 "2015-09-24T22:53:11Z")
If you’ll allow armored personnel carriers vs mutant cockroaches, there’s **Damnation Alley**. There was never such thing as an unwatchable Jan Michael Vincent movie. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monster-horror-sci-fi-movies-when-has-a-tank-been-been-able-to-do-any-good/732286/42 "2015-09-24T23:08:16Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > If you’ll allow armored personnel carriers vs mutant cockroaches, there’s **Damnation Alley**. > > There was never such thing as an unwatchable Jan Michael Vincent movie. So YOU’RE the other guy that saw that movie! Our 50 year reunion party is gonna be real inexpensive. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monster-horror-sci-fi-movies-when-has-a-tank-been-been-able-to-do-any-good/732286/43 "2015-09-24T23:39:43Z")
Doctor Who, _The Runaway Bride_. A squadron of standard British Army tanks took down the Racnoss webship. In flight. [{from about 3.00 onwards}](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYR5lINNrsE) ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2015, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monster-horror-sci-fi-movies-when-has-a-tank-been-been-able-to-do-any-good/732286/44 "2015-09-25T01:02:15Z")
In the _Wild Cards_ novels, an alien swarm invasion had multiple landing sites. One of them was right in the middle of a massive amount of Russian armor doing some field exercises. That landing didn’t go so well for the aliens… the Chinese had to go nuclear, and the Americans had superheroes, but the Russians had tanks… lots and lots of tanks. > [@Declan](#): > > Your thinking of Bun Bun, in regards to the super tanks. The Nazi tanks were fairly seriously upgraded, but in the Bun Bun scenario, there were a bunch of M1 Abrams outfitted with nose-to-tail artillery rounds (Banshee?) which managed to take out an alien ship. Overall, tanks generally kicked ass when they were given a shot on target in the Posleen novels. ---
**Author:** ![MrQwertyasd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@MrQwertyasd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrQwertyasd)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2015, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monster-horror-sci-fi-movies-when-has-a-tank-been-been-able-to-do-any-good/732286/45 "2015-09-25T02:17:03Z")
Now, when you say tank, can we stretch the definition to the APC in Aliens - because that was quite handy - and it did have a gun on top. But if you mean tank vs 100ft monster - never seen them do anything but get squished or vaporised. ---
**Author:** ![MrQwertyasd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@MrQwertyasd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrQwertyasd)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2015, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monster-horror-sci-fi-movies-when-has-a-tank-been-been-able-to-do-any-good/732286/46 "2015-09-25T02:43:20Z")
I think I have one - Battle of the Planets cartoon. They had a tank. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monster-horror-sci-fi-movies-when-has-a-tank-been-been-able-to-do-any-good/732286.md?page=2)