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* While the Grumman F4F Wildcat and F6F Hellcat weren't particularly agile (and the Wildcat was dog slow as well), they could take an extreme amount of punishment and were among the only planes that could stand a chance of withstanding direct hits from a [[Glass Cannon|Mitsubishi Zero's]] cannons. Infamous Japanese ace Saburo Sakai once put ''six hundred'' rounds of ammunition into a Wildcat and it kept on flying.
** Correction. The F6F Hellcat combined the F4F Wildcat's durability and [[More Dakka|firepower]] ''with'' the superior agility of the Zero, as well as [[Super Speed|far greater speed than both]] due to a much more powerful engine. That made it kill more aircraft than any other in the War, up to [[Over Nine Thousand|5000]] Zeroes and other Japanese fighters were shot down by Hellcats ''alone''.
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** Schwerer Gustav was a heavy artillery piece which needed double tracked railroads to support it's weight, with 2500 people setting up the tracks. Once it was in position it would launch 800mm 7.1 metric ton shells to a position over 37000 meters away.
* Turtle ships - early battleships from Korean admiral Yi Sun Shin. At the time Korea was attacked by the Japanese on fast light ships that could carry little to no deck artillery, and fought mostly by boarding. So the ship intended to counter this wasn't designed for boarding or ramming, but packed a lot of big cannons (firing both balls and fin-stabilized harpoons) and was wrapped in armor, with only masts and oars sticking out - even the top deck was protected with roof that had lots of spikes to stop the boarders right where archers from the narrow passage in the middle could shoot them point-blank. It also carried ready supplies for [[Smoke Out|smoke cover]] and firefighting. Loading all this on top of a wide hull from thick and dense wood capable of taking strong recoil obviously made these ships sluggish - but nothing says "go away or go down" like a little floating fort.
* Monitors. Self-propelled artillery
* Cataphract cavalry. The ancient precursors of knights (who themselves were [[Lightning Bruiser]]s), cataphracts had both horse and rider fully encased in scale, lamellar or mail armour. They were armed with long spear used with both hands. These guys never could do faster than trot, but they were pretty much invulnerable to arrows and javelins, and could break almost any period infantry. Romans calculated it took eight ranks of legionaries to stop a Parthian cataphract charge. Cataphracts eventually superseded legionaries in late Roman armies.
* War Elephants.
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* It's believed that the largest sauropod dinosaurs like ''Diplodocus'' were extremely slow moving due to their sheer size and to conserve their energy, and may have only moved in slow, short bursts. However, their sheer size likely kept them off the menu of predators. ''Argentinosaurus'' may have weighed as much as ''110 tons'' which for obvious reasons nobody wants stepping, stomping or landing on them. Many also possessed long, whip-like tails, which may have been used like bullwhips for defense. Imagine getting hit by a ''60-foot bullwhip''. Ouch.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VcEf-gugpg This] wrestling match is the mighty glacier facing off against a [[Fragile Speedster]].
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